Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:04): The problems with the pre-drafted supplementary are that you don't listen to the answer, you don't try to think about the answer, you don't respond to the answer and you don't process the economic conclusions yourself—you have to go with the precooked script. The Leader of the Opposition needs to answer this question: what does he say his strategy would have been at the time of the global financial crisis? We know he voted against jobs. What does he say the consequences would have been— Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister will return to the question. Ms GILLARD: for the government's budget if he had been Prime Minister and voted against jobs. The consequences of course would have been that we would have seen the hit to revenues from the global financial crisis, we would have seen the problem with revenue recovery that we are seeing now, we would have seen more Australians unemployment and we would have seen lower growth— The SPEAKER: Order! The Prime Minister will return to the question. Ms GILLARD: This is centrally on the question. The Leader of the Opposition tries to create this fantasy land to pretend that the global financial crisis and its consequences for the government's budget did not happen. It is a furphy. It is the sort of thing one would only put forward if one had no understanding of or capacity to deal with the facts and no interest in economics—and, unfortunately, that is the Leader of the Opposition.