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

We have speculation from the opposition versus the fact, which is that members opposite saddled every single Australian man, woman and child with a debt of $25,000. That is what was going: $25,000 per man, woman and child. That was the debt trap that members opposite left our nation. That was the intergenerational theft that members opposite were guilty of saddling our children and grandchildren with to pay for their vote buying schemes. That is exactly what members opposite did. Now they are in denial.

Mr Shorten interjecting—

The Leader of the Opposition, who cannot keep quiet—sitting across the ministerial table, he just cannot keep quiet—is in denial. The more he babbles the more obvious it is that he is simply in denial about the debt and deficit disaster that he was in up to his neck, having executed two prime ministers—

Mr Shorten interjecting—

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