Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. There was not an answer there, because they are not capable of one. I refer to the minister's media release in May 2011 in which she claimed that the government has delivered the fastest fiscal consolidation in modern budget history. Now that the government is breaking its promise to deliver a budget surplus in 2012-13 and continues to borrow at a record pace, will the minister now concede that this claim that she made is false?