Fed: Hockey stumbles over key economic fact

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2009
Fed: Hockey stumbles over key economic fact

CANBERRA, Feb 22 AAP - The opposition's new Treasury spokesman, Joe Hockey, has stumbled
over a key economic fact in his first week in the job.

Mr Hockey struggled to name the size of the government's $42 billion economic stimulus package.

"This is exactly why we opposed the size of the $42,000, ah, million dollar, billion
dollar, the $42 billion dollar stimulus package," Mr Hockey told ABC Television on Sunday.

His predecessor, Julie Bishop, was attacked when she made a gaffe early in her tenure
as Treasury spokeswoman, failing to correctly name …