Andrew Leigh (Fraser, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is critical that those opposite acquaint themselves with a document which it is clear from this debate they have not seen. That document is called the budget. The budget sets out how Australian government expenditure is broken down. And that is all this amendment attempts to go to. But rather than try to present it in an overall way, setting out the overall spending, those opposite would like to have us break it down in some precise little dollar figure. As they know full well, were there to be an error in this it could easily prompt litigation. The evidence has been brought forward by the ATO that doing this—

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