House debates
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:55 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The Leader of the Opposition correctly identified the spiralling debt and deficit that were in the budget that they left. That's why he said that in June 2022, because they expected a deficit this year of some $78 billion—$78 billion. But instead what you have is a massive turnaround and a forecast surplus of $4.2 billion. And yet they stand up here and ask a question and interject with those absurd comments after the biggest fiscal turnaround in history that has ever occurred.
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