Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, I think, in the House yesterday—and I will say it again today—as we go through the preparation of the mid-year update, we will find the savings that are required to make sure there is room for our priorities. As we go through that, we do not provide a commentary on any allegation made by anybody, wherever they come from—least of all from those opposite. This was the practice of the previous government as well, so there is absolutely nothing unusual about that. But we do know a bit more about budget craters. As we can see here, we had the shadow Treasurer, on breakfast television with the minister for the environment, admit a $70 billion crater.

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