Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am a little perplexed because I have just given a very specific answer to the question. I guess when you already have the three questions written out in front of you and you get an answer and you do not how to deal with that answer you just have to read the next one out. But let me be clear: net interest payments, as I have just said, are forecast to rise to $2.6 billion, 0.2 per cent of GDP, in 2011-12. I do not know how much clearer I can be, Senator Joyce; I truly do not know how much clearer I can be.