TREASURER Wayne Swan has been caught out unable to nominate the year in which Labor last delivered a budget surplus, accidentally dropping a glass of water after conceding he could not answer the question.
Two days after handing down his fourth budget deficit, Mr Swan said he was unsure when his party last had the budget in the black.
Quizzed on morning radio he said: “We’d have to go back to the 1980s, I should think. But Labor wasn’t in power when that great growth spurt came through in the late 90s and early 2000s.”
Pressed again, he replied: “I can’t nominate a date.”
Mr Swan then broke a glass, spilling water in the ABC studio.
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