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

I thank the member for his question, and I agree with him that the government is taking a responsible approach. We are taking the stable approach. We are ensuring that the way we manage the nation's finances is ensuring that we're able to address the very present needs that Australians have today, and those are to keep more of what they earn through lower taxes, which we have already legislated through parliament. We are investing in the $100 billion pipeline of infrastructure projects that support the growth of our economy.

I'm asked about what the alternative approach is, and you have just heard from the Leader of the Opposition that what Labor would do, and what Labor would have us do, is return to the failed and reckless spending of the Rudd-Swan government. What they think is the response to the circumstances that we face today, which they put in some strange alignment with the issues of the global financial crisis and bird flu and any number of things—

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