Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

trajectory up to $667 billion. That is what Senator Cameron and his government, which he was unfortunately not a part of, did. Senator Cameron was the one who referred to his government as 'lobotomised zombies', if I recall correctly. The lobotomised zombies, as Senator Cameron described them, were on a debt trajectory of $667 billion.

Unlike Senator Cameron, I feel that I can approach this MPI with a degree of integrity because I have been a critic of some decisions that the government has undertaken over the last 16 months or so. Senator Cameron, you cannot deny that I have been a critic of some of those decisions, because I have stood up in this place and said, 'I can't support them.' The government has indeed made mistakes, but no government is perfect. It is about the framework in which it has evolved. Let me just tell you that a lot of the difficulties the government—

Honourable senators interjecting—