Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s admission a moment ago that the government is preparing to go into what he describes as ‘a temporary deficit’. Given that the last time a federal Labor government went into a temporary deficit it lasted over six years, how many years will the Rudd government’s temporary deficit last?

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