Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

not only are they going to bring the budget back to surplus but they are also going to bring the budget back to surplus sooner than the coalition, without any detail whatsoever on where Mr Shorten is going to cut deeper or where he is going to increase taxes. That is because, given Mr Shorten's track record so far, he is actually starting from way behind. Eventually it will dawn on Mr Shorten that if he wants to make these sorts of promises, the budget is not actually a magic pudding. If you do not want to support our savings, if you do not want to support our revenue measures and if you want to deliver a surplus more quickly, you have got to tell us how. (Time expired)