Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask another supplementary question. Now that the government has spent the Costello surplus—and maxed out the credit card on debt; milked superannuation funds, Medicare Private, and the Future Fund; and decimated the Defence budget—I ask the minister: what brilliant strategies does this economic powerhouse of a government have up its sleeve to save jobs, rescue companies that are failing and restore some confidence of Australians in our country?