Treasurer Jim Chalmers issued a press release this morning which seems solely aimed at the press gallery and campaign journalists:

The Budget shows that gross debt in 2024–25 is $177 billion lower than what was projected at the time of the last election.
 
This means we have lowered the debt by around $17,700 per household.
 
By lowering the debt, we’re avoiding around $60 billion in interest costs, or around $6,000 per household.
 
The Liberals left us a trillion dollars of debt during a decade where they racked up deficit after deficit.
 
In less than three years, we’ve turned two big Liberal deficits into two Labor surpluses, shrunk this year’s deficit, reduced Liberal Party debt by $177 billion and saved Australians billions in interest costs, while also delivering substantial cost-of-living relief.
 
The Coalition’s last Budget had gross debt above 40 per cent of GDP throughout the forecast and medium term. Under Labor, it’s now expected to peak  lower.
 
The change in gross debt over the Albanese Government – around $45 billion from 2021-22 to 2024-25 – is a much smaller increase than under Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison, even the pre-pandemic years:
 
    •    From end of 2012–13 to 2015–16, gross debt rose by $163 billion.
    •    From 2015–16 to 2018–19, it rose by $122 billion.
    •    From 2018–19 to 2021–22, it rose by $353 billion.
 
Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor have said “the best predictor of future performance is past performance”.
 
The Liberals’ past performance is higher debt, higher inflation, lower wages and cuts to Medicare, and that’s what they would deliver again if they win the election.
 
Under Labor, inflation is down, real wages and living standards are growing again, unemployment is low, debt is down, interest rates have been cut and growth is rebounding solidly.

That, we assume, is in response to graphics like this:

Screenshot from the Insider’s program, Sunday 30 March.