Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

You can see how allergic those opposite are these days to the words 'sound financial management'. There is no Peter Costello over there. This is a very different Liberal opposition, one that would be in deficit in every year of the forward estimates were it in government and one that delivered an $11 billion black hole in the last election. The Treasurer will hand down his fourth budget tonight and, as we have said, Mr President—