Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

We will continue our measured and responsible approach to managing the budget, which has seen significant improvement in the underlying cash balance, which has seen debt lower and which has seen interest payments on that debt lower. All of those are areas where we inherited a mess from those opposite. We know, from their own election costings documents, that deficits would be higher and debt would be higher. They were the architects of the economic team of the worst election defeat in the coalition's history, and now are the new leaders of the team. It's unbelievable. We have those architects of higher debt, higher taxes and higher deficits—we know that that was all that was published. What do you do when you have a failure like that? You elect the architects as leaders of your party. Well, good luck to all of you.