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

We have laid out a clear plan to return the budget to surplus in 2012-13 and we are determined to get there. Those opposite may not like the fact that we have demonstrated fiscal restraint and credibility, in stark contrast to them, but those are the facts.

It is true, there is no doubt, that events in the global economy do make that task more difficult—