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

Most certainly. I was asked a question about budgeting and we do follow the Charter of Budget Honesty, unlike those opposite. So it is a bit rich to get the sort of question we got today from the shadow Treasurer about the Charter of Budget Honesty, which they breached massively in the last election campaign—just a little bit rich. Also we have a question about a carbon price they do not believe in.

We will update our figures in the normal way in the May budget and wouldn't it be good if we could see from that side, just once, a costed policy? They are out there all the of time claiming that they are responsible. They are out there all of the time claiming that the government is spending too much. They are out there all of the time claiming there is an entitlement mentality and they are going to cut it back, but we cannot see one costed policy about anything.

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