Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, we on this side of the House are supporting people on low and fixed incomes. We are providing cost-of-living relief to everyone at the same time as we clean up the mess that those opposite left in the budget. We've been turning Liberal deficits into Labor surpluses and we've been paying down Liberal debt. If they get their hands on the budget there will be more Liberal debt, there will be more waste, there'll be more rorts and there will be more attacks on Medicare and on pensioners, and on the lowest-paid Australians.

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