Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

We will not shirk the responsibility of ensuring that we frame a budget for the future of the people here in the gallery. Our investment in skills, our investment in manufacturing, our investment in education and our investment in energy and a clean energy future will set this country up for the future. We will also do the hard work that this mob over here couldn't do, and that is to ensure we start to pay down the debt and deal with the structural deficit that this mob over here, squawking like political bin chickens, left us to fix up. The job is tough, but we are good for it. They talk about economic management but, over nine years, did none of it.

Honourable members interjecting—

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