Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. Before I get to risks, a third benefit is the 50 per cent discount on tax payable on interest income up to $1,000. That is another important benefit.

The real risk, of course, is that which we see from those opposite. The challenge is now down to those opposite—the Liberal and National parties under the leadership of Mr Abbott. When will you deliver a budget surplus? Will you deliver it any time sooner than this government has delivered it against the backdrop of a world financial and economic crisis?