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

That will be the case. There is no doubt that if we had kept on with a Labor Party trajectory of 667 thousand million dollars of debt, then that would have been more severely prejudiced than it may be at the moment. I am confident that the AAA rating will be able to be maintained because we are setting in place a credible path to surplus and recovery for the Australian economy, something that the Australian Labor Party failed to do. When it comes to matters international, I do happen to note that Mr Keating and Mr Swan both seem to have won the accolade of being the best treasurers in the world.