Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Or catering companies; that is right. The member for Moreton rightly points out when they want to challenge immigration department figures, they go to the caterers. Who are the chief immigration officers on Nauru? The guys from MasterChef?

They are unable to stand up to the challenge. We are being challenged to be transparent. Let us be transparent about the decision-making processes of the economic team opposite. Laurie Oakes back in February talked about the economic decision making of those opposite. He said:

In August last year, as the Coalition's expenditure review committee looked for potential savings, there was a leak.

A news report claimed that documents from the so-called 'razor gang'—

this is the one that works hard to find $50 million in savings to meet a $70 billion target—

revealed a warning by Hockey that $70 billion needed to be found.

In fact, well-placed sources say, the documents did not contain an overall savings target at all. Hockey provided it to shadow ministers when he spoke to them in person.

And—here's the devious bit—he gave each of his colleagues a different figure.

This from those opposite—there is trust aplenty in those opposite.

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