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

I say to the Leader of the Opposition and I say to the Greens as well: this is unprecedented territory. If the Labor Party is going to prevent us from trying to fix the problems they created then they will wear this. It will be their responsibility. Labor created the debt of over $400 billion, and now at a cost to the nation they are preventing us from dealing with it. This is a test for the Leader of the Opposition.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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