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

If I can just finish the sentence I was part-way through. This award is for Australia. It is a tribute to the hard work of many millions of Australian businesses and working families, who have worked so hard to make our economy one of the strongest in the developed world, which is something those opposite just cannot bear.

I am asked by Senator Sterle about risks for the government's fiscal strategy. The risk for the strong fiscal performance of Australia is the recklessness of those opposite. The party of a $70 billion black hole. A party that has never once in opposition got its costings right. Not once under Mr Abbott and his economic team have you got your costings right. How extraordinarily embarrassing for you. (Time expired)