Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Training and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

Last night on The 7.30 Report Michael Brissenden had me claiming yesterday morning that the former coalition government had never had a deficit. That was wrong. I did not make that statement. What I did say was that we had 10 years of budget surpluses, full stop. An examination of Budget Paper No. 1 statement 10 will show that to be a simple statement of fact.

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