Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:42): My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Wong. Is it true that the government has presided over one of the fastest fiscal expansions in our history? Has the minister seen the research of Dr Ken Rogoff of Harvard University which shows that Australia has increased its public debt at the third-fastest pace in the world, after Iceland and Ireland, since 2007, which, surprisingly enough, was when the Labor Party was elected to government?
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