Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the fact that the government has announced $124 billion of new additional spending since the last election. Isn’t it the case that, by spending at a rate equivalent to 29 per cent of GDP this year, the Rudd government is now the biggest spending government since World War II?

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