Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

We on this side know that those opposite have an alternative. The alternative is to continue the trajectory, to continue the path of debt and deficit which they started when they were in government. I know colleagues have heard this number before but it warrants repeating—that is, the previous government had the nation on a path towards a gross debt of $667 billion. That is the plan and that remains the plan of those opposite.