Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Unbelievable! Let us be clear. From day one we have been upfront and honest about the global challenges that we face, unlike those opposite, who have engaged in economic vandalism on the surplus that this government has delivered—a surplus that was larger than the one proposed by those opposite, a surplus that reached 1.8 per cent rather than 1.5 per cent.