Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

All the other things that make up the rest of the $21 billion of so-called savings that Labor is proposing to fix the mess that they created include tax increases that the Treasury themselves said were undeliverable. Why? Because they were designed and drafted in the member for Lilley's office before the last budget and they in fact cannot raise a dime. So, true to form, the Labor Party says it has all the solutions, but, true to form, it has no solutions. It only creates problems and expects everyone else to fix them.

I say to the Leader of the Opposition: the coalition is up for fixing the budget, the coalition is up for fixing the economy and the coalition is up for fixing the mess that Labor created.

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