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

He now says, ‘It’s a starting point.’ A new position! So, somewhere in no-man’s-land yesterday, between the Leader of the Opposition’s statement that he would not name a target and the Treasury spokesman’s statement 16 minutes earlier that he would name a target—$25 billion—we now have a no-man’s-land position of somewhere in between. The Leader of the Opposition says that he does not support the government’s current level of deficit and debt to invest in infrastructure, to support jobs and to counter the recession. The Liberal Party Treasury spokesman, although he objects to it today, said yesterday that he supports $25 billion less debt than the government. Tonight, therefore, the Leader of the Opposition must name his level of debt—name his additional savings—because refusal to do so confirms that in fact he is doing nothing but running a dishonest scare campaign.

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