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

deficit after deficit after deficit. After running up more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in cumulative deficits, after giving us the six worst budget results in Australian history, after giving us a cumulative projected debt of $667 billion 10 years out and $123 billion of projected further deficits—after doing all of that—after booby trapping the budget with unsustainable spending years and years into the future, now they are trying to sabotage the solution. That is what they are doing. They booby trapped the budget for their own political purposes, and now they are trying to sabotage the solution. Frankly, it is absolutely contemptible.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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