David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer ) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Greenway for her supplementary question. This government has detailed its plans and policies and handed down budgets year after year in office; we have delivered fully costed plans that have delivered this assistance into the pockets of working Australians. Those opposite now have the opportunity to release their plans to the Australian people, and this is important because we want to make sure that at the next election the Australian people have the opportunity to scrutinise the policies and the impact of those policies on their future.

What we have seen so far from those opposite on the question of timing and when they actually intend to release costed policies is the member for North Sydney and the member for Goldstein telling us last year that they already had their policies fully costed, ready to be released. Where are they? We saw recently from the member for Sturt that they have 90 policies that they intend to release. Where are they? Then the Leader of the Opposition said, 'We will release all of our policies fully costed between the budget and the next election.' But my favourite contribution was from the member for Curtin, who, when she was asked when they would provide their costings, said that the figure in her mind was 30 September. The only problem with that is that that is after the next election. We all know that is what they intend to do: to keep their plans secret from the Australian people. (Time expired)

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