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

That is the promise of consolidation but the reality of expansion. Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that, since Julia Gillard became Prime Minister, she has borrowed an average of $135 million every day? Can the minister explain why this rate of borrowing is in fact higher than that achieved by her predecessor, former Prime Minister Rudd? Is it going to be more than the next Prime Minister, Stephen Smith?