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

I thank the shadow minister for his question because it does give me the opportunity to say that, during the last parliamentary week, we listened to any amount of nonsense from the opposition about budget figures. What has happened in the week since is that the Secretary of the Treasury has verified that, had the pre-election fiscal outlook been delivered on budget day, then the same set of numbers would have been delivered. For all of the opposition's false campaigning—

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