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

because the member for Chifley and his colleagues were always out there not only saying they would deliver a surplus they even claimed to have delivered a surplus! I do not want the member for Lilley to look down, playing solitaire on his computer. He is the one who stood at this dispatch box and said to the Australian people, 'Today I announce four years of surpluses.' Do you remember that, Swanny? Four years of surpluses but then he said he delivered them!

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