WHAT WE LEARNED
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- The Reserve Bank, OECD and IMF have downgraded Australia's economic growth forecast since May.
- Labor unsuccessfully sought to move a motion condemning the government's economic management.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTED TO SPIN
- There is a lot of work to do on the economy, but lowering taxes, boosting skills, signing trade deals and busting red tape is the right strategy.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
- New figures on Australia's slowing economic growth point to the government sitting on its hands.
WHAT THEY SAID
"Why has the IMF slashed Australia's economic growth forecast this calendar year?" - Labor leader Anthony Albanese.
"Now is the time for our economic and financial management, one that is about cool and clear heads - it is not a time for Labor's policies of panic and crisis." - Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
"Doesn't every tonne of thermal coal you explored and burn send another farmer to the wall? What is more important - crops or coal?" Greens MP Adam Bandt.
"If it's such an emergency they should be able to say what their policy is." - Morrison on Labor's climate stance.
Australian Associated Press
