Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is shocking, as the honourable member has been kind enough to point out to the chamber. The government talks about temporary debt, but I think this is intergenerational debt. The government is borrowing to spend money now, to throw money out the door in cash splashes, to in effect squander money—to squander the sound economic management of the former government. You will find that children not yet born will be paying this debt back in the future.

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