House debates Matters of Public Importance

Budget

Wednesday, 25 March 2015 House of Representatives

Andrew Giles

Andrew Giles Scullin, Australian Labor Party

3:56 pm

At the heart of this debate on the budget is a big question, and it is a question for members opposite: when does good government begin? And there is a subsidiary question, for people who get the first answer right—and I am looking forward to any answers, really; Malcolm has one, I understand. Whatever happened to the budget emergency? Do you remember the budget emergency? Whatever happened to the budget emergency?—the key to the pre-election economic narrative but missing from or an occasional visitor to the narrative in government.

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