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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that, in the minister's time as finance minister, we have seen the cumulative total of deficits run up to over $40 billion—more than you and the Treasurer estimated at budget time; $40 billion over what they told us it was going to be—why should Australians have any confidence in your estimates? Why should we have any confidence in the next budget nightmare, the NBN? Is it the fact that Mr Swan just cannot help himself, grossly overestimating your ability to keep the nation's finances under proper control? (Time expired)