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

My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that he forecast for this year a budget surplus of $1.5 billion—but he abandoned that promise in December. I refer the Treasurer to the government's January Monthly Financial Statements, released at 5 pm last Friday, which show the current government deficit so far this year to be $26.8 billion. Treasurer, will you now come clean with the Australian people and tell us what the deficit is going to be?

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