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

I was right last night; I was right today. If it were possible to do everything, the only way you would be able to do that would be to have big surpluses. Once upon a time the Australian government did have big surpluses. That was when the coalition was last in government. We inherited from Labor a budget haemorrhaging at $133 million a day. The Labor Party kept saying they wanted to keep increasing foreign aid even to countries that they themselves were giving foreign aid away from. That was a Labor Party solution: to give foreign aid to countries that they themselves were giving foreign aid from.

Mr Shorten interjecting—

Those countries were taking our foreign aid and then going and giving away foreign aid themselves, in case you do not understand that. No, you do not! You do not know where you are going, do you?

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