Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

It shows remarkable audacity to come into this place and ask about cuts we may or may not have to make because of the fiscal incompetence of those opposite during their six years in government. Do you remember the $22 billion surplus we left you? It took us 10 years to pay off the debt you racked up the last time you were in government. We paid it off, we gave you $22 billion and we gave you zero interest. We gave you money in the bank, and what did you do? You blew it all away.