Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (15:04): I am very happy to inform the Shadow Treasurer that the single-income couple with two dependent children aged between six and 13 where one of the couple is earning $60,000 will continue to receive $8,348 from the taxpayer in social services benefits. It is very important that we continue to be a generous society, but we can only be a generous society if we have a sustainable budget. The tragedy is that thanks to the incompetence and the untrustworthiness of members opposite— Mr Pat Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Charlton. Mr ABBOTT: we faced a debt and deficit disaster. Honourable members interjecting— Mr ABBOTT: I can hardly hear myself think because of the caterwauling from members opposite— The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will resume his seat. I have said there is a general warning. I think I have been most generous to many of you, but if there is another break that person will leave. Mr ABBOTT: We can only continue to have a generous social security system if we have a sustainable budget. Unfortunately, thanks to members opposite— Ms Chesters interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Bendigo will leave under standing order 94(a). The member for Bendigo then left the chamber. Mr ABBOTT: we had a debt and deficit disaster. We had debt and deficit stretching as far as the eye can see. It had to end. Mr Conroy interjecting — The SPEAKER: The member for Charlton will join her! The member for Charlton then left the chamber. Mr ABBOTT: Even with the changes that this government has made, even with the changes that members opposite are denouncing as cruel and immoral, we still only get to balance in four years time. That indicates the scale, the absolute scale, of the debt and deficit disaster which members opposite created. I say again to the Leader of the Opposition that this government has had the integrity and the decency to say to the Australian people exactly how we are going to deal with Labor's debt and deficit disaster. We have told the Australian people how we will fix the problem the Leader of the Opposition created. Now the Leader of the Opposition needs to tell us how he will fix the problem that he and his colleagues did create.