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

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to the fact that the Rudd government is now the biggest-spending government in modern Australian history, with government spending at around 29 per cent of GDP. I refer to the fact that the Rudd government has now the biggest net debt since World War II, and I refer to the fact the Rudd government is putting it all on the nation’s credit card, the Ruddcard—$315 billion of debt. I ask the Treasurer: where exactly in the budget papers are the justifications for the Prime Minister’s claim that he is going to pay off the nation’s credit card by 2022? I seek leave to table all of these documents in the same way the Prime Minister did.

Leave not granted.

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