Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to the fact that, this financial year, the government has borrowed $37 billion in the first 10 months. This borrowing is the second largest—you would think that borrowing that much would be the most, but it is not; it is the second most—amount borrowed under this Labor government in any one year. Can the minister explain why, if the economy is so strong—if they are doing so well—the government is continuing to borrow all this money?