Senate debates
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Questions without Notice
Economy
2:14 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source
As I was saying, in addition to endorsing the government's economic plans, the IMF commented favourably on the government's determination to bring the budget back to surplus and pointed out that this puts us miles ahead of our peers. Of course, the ability to return to surplus does depend on getting your numbers right. The opposition have yet to get their numbers right. Their $11 billion black hole, found by Treasury and Finance, from which they have never recovered, has now blown out to a $70 billion black hole—
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