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

We should not be taking it as flippantly as those opposite, who continue to interject. The new opposition leader, as I have said, has described it as facing probably the greatest economic crisis of our lifetime. I look forward to those opposite actually behaving in that way. Global financial markets are slowing and confidence rates are down, but what we are seeing from those opposite is a continued attempt to vandalise the budget surplus—just blow $6 billion out here, spend a few billion dollars there on pensions!