Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the spending decisions taken by this government have increased expenditure by around $19 billion in the past six months alone and that the forecast for the budget deficit in 2011-12 has blown out by $9.6 billion to $22.6 billion, how can this government ever be trusted to deliver a budget surplus?