Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Does the member for Chifley really want to come forward and put his name to that? MYEFO is coming up at the end of this year and then of course we will have next year's budget. And in next year's budget I do not think it is too cavalier to predict that these great conditions predicted in the budget may not come forward, and we may not share that $1.5 billion surplus.

So if I have one overarching criticism it is the absolute lack of certainty that is coming out of the government. Their economic policy is just unfathomable to business and to people looking to invest in this country, and really they ought to hang their heads in shame at the way they are treating economic policy in Australia today.

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