George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I am just trying to contextualise it for you, Senator Cameron. Over six years of a Labor government Australia went from the best financial position it has ever been in and the best set of public accounts it has ever enjoyed to an unprecedented level of debt and deficit, and that is what this government has been grappling with under the prime ministerships of Mr Tony Abbott and Mr Malcolm Turnbull.