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

That is what they did in September 2013 last year. The government is implementing long-term structural reforms to clean up Labor's mess and fix the debt and deficit disaster they left behind. Labor left us with more than 200,000 more Australians unemployed, $667 billion in projected gross debt and $123 billion in cumulative deficits. As Deloitte Access Economics Director, Mr Richardson, has warned:

If we haven't repaired the budget starting now, we will really regret that down the track.

Senator Lines interjecting—

According to Mr Richardson, the government's budget repair package is 'the only road map to structural fiscal repair that Australia has.'

Senator Lines interjecting—

There is no other in the marketplace. All the Labor Party do is shout, interject, whinge and whine without an alternative strategy. This government has delivered a strategy. (Time expired)