Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The minister is right: it does get worse in Tasmania, which has had a state Labor government for over a decade. I refer the leader to the Prime Minister's statement at a town hall meeting just two days before the 2010 election, at which the Prime Minister said that failure to deliver a surplus was 'not an option'. Can the minister confirm to the Senate that failure is now an option for this Prime Minister and her government?