Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

it particularly difficult for finance ministers to do their job in an atmosphere of general collapse of discipline and disunity, which we continue to see amongst the Liberal Party now in opposition. So the Labor Party intends to be fiscally disciplined. We intend to increase the budget surplus from one per cent of gross domestic product to 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product. We quite proudly boasted in the run-up to the last election, and we continue to quite proudly boast, that we are fiscal conservatives. (Time expired)