Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The thing about the Labor Party is: they never learn from their mistakes. They've never learnt from the mistakes of their fiscal recklessness that plunged the government's budget back into deficit and kept it there. And that's the reason they were six years in government and they didn't deliver one surplus, despite inheriting one.

Our government, having inherited deficits, will deliver the first surplus in 12 years, because we understand the importance of disciplined financial management. Our government will not return to the reckless spending of Rudd and Swan. We will never engage in their reckless spending—because Labor will take any excuse to spend more of your money and take more of your money off you, in order to indulge their habit of reckless spending. They never learnt from their mistakes. We were elected to implement Liberal policies and Nationals policies of stable and disciplined financial management, not to engage in the budget recklessness and the policies of panic and crisis of the Labor Party. The only budget they've ever seen is one they want to blow.

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