Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I read with some surprise that the Leader of the Opposition said this morning on television that this government was 'bequeathed a good set of books when they came into power'. There are people on magic mushrooms with a firmer grip on reality than that proposition. We are in a government that has had to clean up after almost a decade of Liberal profligacy and incapacity for economic management. They were a trillion dollars in debt with nothing to show for it in terms of social or economic reform—