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

Well, we would love to be able to afford to do so, but you left us with no money. In fact, worse than that, you took away whatever money was there. So we now need to repair the budget mess that you created. We now need to go down the path of making the difficult decisions that Labor failed to take to make sure that Australia can afford its future. Unfortunately, Labor left us with a deficit they said was going to be $18 billion but in fact was $48 billion, and instead of leaving us a budget with surpluses that they not only claimed would be delivered—

Mr Champion interjecting—

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