Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that since the last election the minister co-presided over a $33.3 billion blow-out in the budget deficit just last financial year while continuing to ignore the government's own so-called fiscal rules and making $120 billion of unfunded spending promises on top of $172 billion of accumulated Labor deficits so far, why should anyone trust any promise from this Labor government that it will deliver a surplus in 2012-13?