Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We are also increasing the emergency fund that Labor had ripped money out of to fill black holes elsewhere in the budget. We have restored the emergency fund so we can respond to natural disasters.

But it seems that Labor have learned nothing from the debt and deficit legacy that they left us. They have committed to increasing the aid budget by $16 billion. I ask the Leader of the Opposition: where do they think they are going to get an additional $16 billion from when we were already borrowing a billion dollars a month just to pay the interest on their debt?

As the former Foreign Minister Bob Carr revealed in his travel log—

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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