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

Well, Madam Speaker, I am just going through the index here. I can see 'Dominique Strauss-Kahn', 'superannuation', 'Erinn Swan', 'Kim Swan', 'Libbi Swan', 'Matthew Swan', 'Wayne Swan' but no 'surplus'. I cannot find it. But he promised it. How many times? Three hundred or 400 times he promised it. He even claimed to deliver a surplus, and Labor claimed to deliver a surplus. But the fundamental problem is that Labor were wreckers in government and now they are wreckers in opposition, as well. They are opposing $40 billion of savings that are going to try and fix the Labor mess—the irony being that $5 billion of those savings are the things they actually announced but are now opposing. They are hypocrites when it comes to the budget and they are reckless when it comes to the economy.

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