Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable senator is right when she observes that the Prime Minister promised Australians a brighter future. And the bleakest future of all that Australians could face is a debt burden of $667 billion and a burden of deficits going way out, seeing literally thousands of millions of dollars being required to be borrowed each month just to pay off the interest incurred by the debts from those opposite.

Let's be very clear. If this country does want a bright future—and it voted for a bright future in September last year—then we need to get on with the task for which we were elected, which was to fix up the fiscal debacle that was left by Labor. And I do note that one of the greatest interjectors during this question thus far, as per normal, is none other than the failed finance minister of the previous government. (Time expired)