Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I also want to ask a question of the minister in relation to state government debt. The minister has made a number of public comments both in the House and outside in relation to government expenditure of the previous government and of his own. Leaving that aside, would a state government going into debt for recurrent expenditure be good policy? Is that a policy that the minister would endorse? Would a state government going into debt to pay recurrent expenditure for an increase in the number of public servants in a state government department, for argument’s sake, have an inflationary or deflationary effect?

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