Question Time in federal parliament

WHAT WE LEARNED

- 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.