CANBERRA, ACT, Nov. 26 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: Coalition's record of economic mismanagement, CPI, public service spending, Coalition's coal proposal to cost billions
Jim Chalmers:
Labor is the party of responsible economic management. We've delivered 2 surplus budgets, we've got the deficit down in the third year, we found $100billion in savings, and we've got the Liberal debt down by almost $200billion.
We won't be taking lectures on responsible economic management from a Coalition which took to the election a policy for lower wages, higher taxes, bigger deficits and more debt to pay for nuclear reactors.
If the Coalition had its way and won the last election, Australians would be...