Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I must be a freak because I always keep them in the back of my head. Your gross debt today is $172.7 billion. As to your net debt, God only knows. Who would know what it is? You could never deliver us the details to explain. We have had a question on notice for you for some four or five months to try and explain the difference between the two figures and you have never delivered the answer to us. Your debt last week went up by $2.8 billion. I think the Australian people have a right to know that. If we are now living in this wondrous new time of light—the time of removing tinea; the time of getting everything out into the open air—why would you not tell the Australian people exactly what they owe, who they owe it to and what they are spending it on?