Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Prime Minister. I refer him to his statement at the National Press Club on 21 November last year in which he said:

I pride myself on being an economic conservative, committed to budget surpluses. This forms the economic bedrock of my plan for the nation’s future.

Given that after only 12 months in office the government is now planning budget deficits for the future, does the Prime Minister accept that in fact it is debt and deficits that are the economic bedrocks of Labor governments?

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