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

We are getting that down to around $35 billion and getting it back on a credible path to surplus. We have reduced expenditure that Labor left behind by $50 billion, and along the way we have had to make some incredibly difficult decisions about the size of the Public Service and reducing the number of quangos, committees and inquiries and so on that were undertaken—

Mr Husic interjecting—

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