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

All of the assertions contained in the Leader of the Opposition's question are false. We are not cutting schools and hospitals. We are not ripping off families. We are not imposing taxes in the way that the Leader of the Opposition suggests. We are addressing the debt and deficit disaster that we inherited from members opposite. Members opposite are in denial about the fiscal catastrophe that they created. They are absolutely in denial about the disaster that they left as their legacy. They accepted, in government, that they needed to move back to surplus. Why can't they accept now that it is necessary to move back to surplus?

Ms Owens interjecting—

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