Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

So the member for Rankin, as he stood before the Australian people at the last election, said that the state of the nation's finances should be made worse. That was the policy he took to the last election. So the hypocrisy of the architect of the fiscal bonfire that they left this government to deal with would turn up with the matches still flipping out of their pockets, and the stench of the kerosene that they used to literally make the bonfire go even higher—to come here and ask this government that is restoring the budget to balance, while they sit opposite and oppose every single thing the government is seeking to do. That extends to the important work we have to do to grow our economy.

Honourable members interjecting—

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