House debates Questions without Notice

Economy

Monday, 30 March 2026 House of Representatives

Jim Chalmers

Jim Chalmers Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer

2:08 pm

If they're saying now, as they're interjecting across the table, that they included that, then they got their costing wrong, and it's not the first time that they have done that.

The shadow treasurer asked me about the key difference. The key difference is that we are providing more relief. Now, when it comes to the budget position, again, another key difference between this side and that side is that the underlying cash position that the member for Hume took as shadow treasurer to the last election had an $11 billion bigger deficit this year than what we had. He's now pretending—

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