Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam President. Minister, having spent months patting yourselves on the back and giving yourselves credit for the last two budget surpluses, what responsibility does the Albanese government take for the reported record deterioration in government finances—the largest worsening of a budget outside of a war or a pandemic—or does Prime Minister Albanese only want to claim other people's successes, while blaming others for his economic failures?