10 Year Anniversary Of The Stimulus Package With Wayne Swan Tanya Plibersek And Jim Chalmers
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Ten years after the global financial crisis, Wayne Swan, Tanya Plibersek and Jim Chalmers revisit the Labor government’s stimulus package which kept Australia out of recession.
Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett
Contributors:
Wayne Swan MP, ALP President, Member for Lilley // @SwannyQLD
Tanya Plibersek MP, Deputy Labor Leader, Member for Sydney // @tanya_plibersek
Jim Chalmers MP, Shadow Finance Minister, Member for Rankin // @JEChalmers
Ben Oquist, Executive Director of The Australia Institute // @benoquist
This audio was recorded live by Clayton McDonald.
Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey // Additional editing by Lizzie Jack, Andrea Cantle.
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