Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I answered the question with my first few words: everybody is entitled to their opinion. That is it. Senator Moore wants me to say, 'They're right; they're right; they're right,' so she could issue a press release, and I am not going to do that. As I said, we did not bring down the budget we brought down because we wanted to. The budget we wanted to bring down, quite frankly, would have been in 2007 when we lost the election, when we handed to those on the other side $20 billion in a surplus. Imagine what we could have done on this side—