John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

I am glad that you are interjecting, Senator Joyce, because it shows that you have not read the budget papers at all. He further said:

It is the responsible budget our nation needs at a time of international turbulence and high inflation at home.

And it is. You cannot label it old-fashioned, because it is a responsible budget and it addresses the issues of our time. It is high inflation at home that we inherited from the previous government. Mr Swan also said that it is ‘a budget carefully designed to fight inflation’.