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

Net debt under this government is coming down, because we are in surplus this year. It has been a long time since we've been in surplus. After six painstaking years of getting the budget back into shape, getting spending under control, conservatively budgeting on the forecasts on revenue and ensuring that we are getting Australians back into work—so they are going off welfare and they're paying taxes—the budget is now in surplus this year.

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

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