Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, there are a range of views about the future shape of growth. I have just referred to four market economists who actually believe that those contained within the Treasury forecast are on the bearish side.

But, again, the reason that this is relevant is that it goes to the whole question of how we structure our public finance of the future and how we structure debt and deficits into the future and, therefore, the relevance and role of the Liberals in the Senate. I referred before to what was an exercise in policy confusion on the part of those opposite on the question of debt and deficit. That was volume 1. But as they say in the steak knives advertisement, ‘There’s more,’ because later on this morning, at 8.23 am—remember, the charge is on in the question of debt and deficits—we have the Leader of the Opposition on AM on the question of how he would have done this budget differently.

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