Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

As I told the National Press Club two days after the Treasurer delivered the budget, I was still unable to decide whether Josh Frydenberg, the Treasurer, was the luckiest or unluckiest Treasurer in Australia's history. Unlucky because he's had to negotiate the challenge of a pandemic and all the economic consequences we have experienced as a result of it. But lucky because he would probably be the first Treasurer in history—although I'm not sure exactly what transpired during the First and Second World Wars—who has been able to up rack up—

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