Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. I refer the minister to the $1.7 billion blow-out on school halls, the $1.2 billion school computers blow-out, the $1.4 billion blow-out in Medicare, the $1.8 billion blow-out in pharmaceuticals expenses, the $850 million blow-out in the solar panels program, the $17 million failed NBN tender, the blow-out in the NBN commitment from $4.7 billion to $43 billion, the unfunded $250 million payment to TV stations, yesterday’s unfunded $200 million announcement on aviation security and the over $1 billion in consultancy contracts awarded since coming to office. Minister, why can’t you and your colleagues properly manage taxpayers’ money? Don’t these massive spending blow-outs just put further upward pressure on interest rates?

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