House debates Questions without Notice

Energy Security Fund

Thursday, 22 March 2012 House of Representatives

Wayne Swan

Wayne Swan Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer

2:10 pm

Mr Speaker, it was a question about our surplus and it was a question about the profile of a particular piece of expenditure across the forward estimates. What I am saying is that we have strict fiscal discipline, which is bringing our budget back to surplus. That stands in stark contrast to those opposite, who have a $70 billion crater in their budget bottom line. To fill that crater they want to put up company taxes by 1½ per cent.

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