Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

including the family that the shadow minister referred to in her question, is contributing to $1 billion a month—in dead money—in interest repayments on Labor's borrowing. This is the difficulty that eventually had to be tackled and it has been tackled by this government. This is a government which has had the decency and the honesty to face up to the debt and deficit disaster that we inherited from the former government, from members opposite.

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