Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

This government will continue to get on with the job: tackle the challenges that were identified in the OECD survey; continue to put forward policies that build a stronger, broader, more competitive economy; and continue to invest in skills, in infrastructure, in boosting participation and in delivering our fiscal strategy to ensure we return to surplus through complying with some very strict fiscal rules.

The reality is that those opposite like to talk about fiscal responsibility, but we know who their economic team is. Their economic team is a shadow Treasurer who did not bother to check the costings and a shadow finance minister who got his costings wrong—who delivered a $10.6 billion black hole. We on this side stand for jobs. We supported a stimulus. You opposed it. You made the wrong call. We on this side understand the importance of fiscal discipline. You have got a black hole. (Time expired)