Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) | Hansard source

Clearly didn't do economics. Independent analysis indicates an estimated $54.8 billion headline deficit this financial year, some $21.3 billion worse than the underlying deficit of $33.5 billion, due to your excessive off-budget spending. Doesn't this prove that your self-congratulatory back-patting rhetoric is not only misleading but also false and that, as we leave 2024, the Albanese Labor government has now abandoned any attempt to really rein in the budget?