Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

If you look at the facts—if we get them out there on the table—what they will show is that our expenditure levels are broadly, as a percentage of GDP, where they were when that mob over there were in government. So much for the spending problem. These are figures which are easily available. They are there, but they choose once again to exaggerate what is going on. We over the forward estimates have got spending growth of, on average, 1.1 per cent.

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