Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Jagajaga is warned!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lingiari will remove himself under 94A!

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There is no point of order.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I see the member for Grayndler is attempting to support the Leader of the Opposition for once! But we have explained—

Opposition members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There will be silence on my left!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Watson will desist!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Lalor will desist!

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

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.