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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his pre-election commitment to adopt the budget discipline of the Howard government. He said:

I am an economic conservative, I’m proud of that fact …

Prime Minister, in which year will you deliver your first budget surplus? Prime Minister, in which year will you pay off your $153 billion of debt? Isn’t this just a case of another Labor broken promise?

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