Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Grogan for her question. Tonight we will see a Labor Treasurer hand down a Labor budget, putting down the foundations of what this government looks to achieve for the Australian people over this term. It will be a responsible budget. It will be a budget that is right for the times and it will be a budget which seeks to ready the country for the future.

Those opposite were the most wasteful government since Federation, overseeing successive budgeting riddled with rorts and slush funds and weighed down with waste. They left us with a trillion dollars of debt but with nothing to show for it. It hurts them, doesn't it? They like to pretend they're the party of sound economic management. They left Australians with a trillion dollars of debt and so little to show for it.