Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

That's right, within a few months of coming to office they made the decision to make Australia's debt unlimited by doing a deal with the Greens. To somehow defend what they have done the Prime Minister has decided that he is now armed with a document. He has a graph—and the graph has different colours! Here is the problem for the Prime Minister when he refers to the different lines on the graph: the line that he claims is Labor's line is the line that was brought out after the Treasurer, a few months later, had doubled the deficit. There is a line that they refer to as 'previous policy'. They are right, it is previous policy; it is Liberal policy from earlier in this term. The line that they refer to as 'if they could get everything through'—their proposed policy—involves policies that by the time this document was released they had already said they had abandoned. That line includes that the GP tax is here to stay. That line includes that they will not give a decent deal to members of the Australian Defence Force. That line includes that they will do nothing about manufacturing jobs in the car industry. And yet to this day they still argue that they are the things they want to do. On that part of it, on those policies, I agree—they do still want to introduce the GP tax. (Time expired)

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