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

What a bunch of frauds on the other side, and the frauds could not even manage to get through the morning before they were exposed, because when asked on Sunrise how much debt he would support and how big a deficit he would support Mr Hockey said:

Our deficit would be smaller. I’ll give you a figure as a starting point. At least $25 billion.

That was at 8.09 am. By 8.27 am the Leader of the Opposition on Sunrise, when asked the same question, said:

If we were in government today revenues would be higher, spending would be lower; therefore, debt would be much lower and the deficit would be much lower.

He is asked, ‘But you can’t say what figure?’ and he says:

No, you can’t because you—because I mean you sit down and you would work out a model.

So in less than 20 minutes these frauds on the other side of the chamber—(Time expired)