Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (15:07): Can I suggest to the Leader of the Opposition that in an area that concerns the economy, rather than just coming in here and pretending he knows, why doesn't he try this: why doesn't he try walking into the budget lock-up and reading the budget documents? It might well be a first. He might never have put his hands on a budget document before. He might never have had to worry his pretty little head about all of the figures in the budget but, just for once, he might want to go into the budget lock-up, get out the budget documents, study the tables, study what he said about the strength of the Australian economy, study the words that are said about questions like surplus, analyse them— Mr Abbott: I rise on a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, on direct relevance. Is there going to be an increase in the debt ceiling in tonight's budget? The DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is not a time for argument. Ms GILLARD: I am inviting the Leader of the Opposition to study the budget, to study what it says on questions of surplus, to study what it says on the fundamentals of the Australian economy, and to study too what it says on questions of debt and the debt cap. The Leader of the Opposition ought to do that, ought to think about it and ought to actually deal with these facts instead of coming into this parliament and trying to create in the Australian community concern about the Australian economy and fear, which he has been peddling since the first day that he sat in the chair of the Leader of the Opposition. No-one will take him seriously unless he comes into this parliament on Thursday with an alternative fully-costed economic plan. With those words I do note, because of the time-wasting of the opposition, we are at the end of question time. I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.