Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I can. Our approach is to build a stronger economy with a stronger budget to ensure that we can afford to pay for the essential government services that Australians rely on over the medium to long term. Labor, on the other hand, when last in government lost complete control of the budget. When Labor lost government the economy was weakening, unemployment was rising and the budget position was rapidly deteriorating, to the point where they couldn't even pay for the listing of new medicines on the PBS.