Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

and he has not turned up to one. He has not turned up to one MPI all week. The Treasurer has been asking all week for this MPI on debt. He has not turned up, so the minister for small business comes in here in his place.

Yesterday we had the Leader of the House reminding us of Mark Latham, and that reminded me of course of the Treasurer not turning up to MPIs. Remember that wonderful column that Mark Latham wrote where Joel Fitzgibbon, the former Minister for Defence, revealed that Wayne Swan as shadow Treasurer refused to do an MPI the day after a budget. We have got a Treasurer who will not do an MPI, who will not answer a question and who cannot even mention the size of the deficit in his budget speech.

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