Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, Sloppy Joe—more ‘sloppynomics’ from Joe. They took them up in the Senate and they passed them with the help of the minor parties in the Senate today. Of course, we will comply to the maximum extent that we possibly can. But it is not about compliance. What it is about here is a debt scare campaign to try to get them off the hook for their failure to support economic stimulus, which is supporting jobs in this economy, and their embarrassment at the national account result two weeks ago. They have opposed vital economic stimulus which is supporting jobs in our economy, and all through this there is no alternative economic policy.

The shadow Treasurer was on Sky News the other day. He was asked on Sky News how the coalition would get a lower deficit. This is the answer—

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