Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

It is extraordinary when you hear those opposite trying to run away from the fact that in one year this government has doubled the deficit. If there was a single test that they wanted to put to the Australian people in their period in opposition, it was that from day one they would be able to start reducing debt and deficit. What do we have now? In one year—and they cannot quibble with the figures; they are their figures—from last year's budget to this year's budget they have doubled the deficit.

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