Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said in May of 2014, 'Every day in the lead up to the last election, I said to people that we were going to get debt and deficit under control.' But on page 317 of his own Budget Paper No. 1, the deficit has doubled from $17 billion to $35 billion in the last 12 months.

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