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

We have a program of investment and infrastructure. High-speed national broadband is a very good contrast with just how complacent and out of touch this government is. We will put in place the program that will deliver downward pressure on inflation and downward pressure on interest rates and we will run a disciplined fiscal policy. You could see how embarrassed this Treasurer was today and how dishonest he was prepared to be when it came to talking about fiscal policy, somehow trying to say that we were not being fiscally conservative because we said that we were going to run the budget in surplus on average over the cycle. He knows absolutely well that running it on average over the cycle is his own policy. (Time expired)

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