Brandis, Sen George

Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (14:16): Mr President, I have a supplementary question. I remind the minister of the Prime Minister's statement that, 'You can't run this country if you can't manage its budget.' Given the commitment to returning the budget to surplus in 2012-13 has been the government's own benchmark for its own economic performance for the past three years, doesn't this latest broken promise show that this government by its own test is no longer fit to govern?