Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

Honourable member. I also regard him as a gentleman, Madam Deputy Speaker—on most days. But I must disabuse him of this notion that somehow the forecast and the projection in the budget paper is not the Treasury’s best estimate of the amount of revenue to be raised, because it is.

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