Tony Abbott says Intergenerational Report will show budget on track to get close to surplus

By James Massola
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:37pm, first published March 4 2015 - 3:26pm

The Intergenerational Report will reveal federal debt was set to "soar" under the former Labor government's policies, while the federal budget would have returned to surplus and stayed there for 35 years if the reforms proposed in the Coalition's politically difficult first budget had passed, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says.

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