Bill Shorten Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition
2:05 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. A single-income family with two children earning $65,000 a year will be $6,000 a year worse off because of the Prime Minister's broken promises on the GP tax, the petrol tax, family payments and cost of living. Isn't it true that no matter what the Prime Minister says this week, Australians will still be $6,000 worse off because of his budget?
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
2:06 pm
This is the government which is determined to fix Labor's debt and deficit disaster. Unlike members opposite, we do not live in some kind of fairyland where there is some kind of budget fix based on fiddling the books and cooking the figures.
Ms Macklin interjecting—
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
We do not live in that kind of a fairyland. We have explained to the Australian people exactly what we are going to do to fix Labor's debt and deficit disaster. We have explained what we are going to do to do.
Mr Snowdon interjecting—
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
The member for Lingiari will remove himself under 94A!
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance
Madam Speaker, on a point of order: to be directly relevant, at some point the Prime Minister has to refer to the families that will be $6,000 worse off.
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker
There is no point of order.
Mr Albanese interjecting—
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
I see the member for Grayndler is attempting to support the Leader of the Opposition for once! But we have explained—
Opposition members interjecting—
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
We have been open and up-front with the Australian people about what we are going to do to deal with the situation created by members opposite—
Mr Burke interjecting—
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
whereby this country is paying $1 billion every single month. We are paying $1 billion every single month just to pay the interest on Labor's borrowings. That is what we are doing. We have been very up-front with the Australian people about what we are doing to fix Labor's debt and deficit disaster.
Ms Ryan interjecting—
Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
Now members opposite should have the honesty and the integrity to tell us what they are doing to deal with the debt and deficit disaster that they created.