Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am inviting the Leader of the Opposition to study the budget, to study what it says on questions of surplus, to study what it says on the fundamentals of the Australian economy, and to study too what it says on questions of debt and the debt cap. The Leader of the Opposition ought to do that, ought to think about it and ought to actually deal with these facts instead of coming into this parliament and trying to create in the Australian community concern about the Australian economy and fear, which he has been peddling since the first day that he sat in the chair of the Leader of the Opposition. No-one will take him seriously unless he comes into this parliament on Thursday with an alternative fully-costed economic plan.

With those words I do note, because of the time-wasting of the opposition, we are at the end of question time. I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.

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