Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is directed to the Treasurer. If this budget is, as the Treasurer claims, a budget for the future, why does it forecast a decline in labour market participation, cut the percentage spent on skills and training, fail to guarantee the delivery of extra child-care places, forecast an increase in the current account deficit and forecast slower growth in business investment? Given that each of these is conceded in the budget papers, how can the Treasurer claim that this is a budget for the future?

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