Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. The final budget outcome for 2015-16 was dumped out late on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago. If a projected deficit of $4.7 billion for 2015-16 warranted a budget emergency, what does the Treasurer call the government's final deficit figure of $39.6 billion—a deficit more than eight times larger than that projected when this government came to office?

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