Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

is the budget that corrects that debt and deficit disaster that they created. The budget that they wave around is the budget that fixes the debt and deficit disaster that they created. They have the solution to their problem in their hands! That is what they do. They have got it in their hands.

A government member: If only they could read!

If only they could read, indeed! And, if they could read, if only they could understand! Understanding, I fear, is lacking from members opposite. They have ears that do not hear—

Ms Butler interjecting—

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