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

But I had to go to Bob Carr's book to find it. In that book, Wayne Swan is quoted as saying, 'The budget is in a ruinous state.' He was damn right; the Labor Party left the budget in a ruinous state. But I tell you what: the coalition is ready to fix it. If we do not fix the mess that Labor left, Australians are going to be left with a lesser quality of life—and the coalition would never leave Australia like that.

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