Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday you told the chamber the budget was fiscally neutral, but today your colleague the minister for aged care said, 'This is a budget that will put downward pressure on inflation,' in contrast to economists from countless banks and rating agencies who called this budget 'expansionary'. Are you seriously arguing that the minister for aged care is correct and that the majority of Australia's leading economists are wrong?