BUDGET FORECAST

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:24): I have a supplementary question.

The SPEAKER: Just before you take the supplementary, I call the member for Hammond to order for his interjections about Wayne Swan, and warn the members for Heysen and Bragg for the first time. Supplementary—the leader.

Mr MARSHALL: My supplementary is, of course, to the Premier. Was the government essentially overspruiking when it promised $2.6 billion worth of surpluses between the 2008-09 financial year and the 2014-15 financial year but has now actually delivered or forecast $2.4 billion worth of deficits in those same years—a turnaround, reported in just the last three budgets, of in excess of $5 billion?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:25): Asking substantially the same question, dripping with scorn, doesn't actually change the substance of the question or the substance of my answer, and so I simply direct the honourable member to the substance of my answer.