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

The reality is that we are winding back the stimulus and we are delivering the largest, fastest return to surplus since the 1960s. We have already seen Treasury say quite clearly that the government is subtracting growth from GDP in 2010. This is the problem with the opposition’s questions: they ignore these facts. They ignore the fact that stimulus is being wound back, that we are already subtracting from GDP growth in 2010 and that we are delivering the largest, fastest return to surplus since the 1960s. All of these facts are ignored by the opposition. (Time expired)