House debates
Monday, 22 May 2017
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:30 pm
Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
The answer to that question is clearly set out in Budget Paper No. 2, plainly set out there, and the net consequences are also set out in Budget Paper No. 2, as I described. But this is just more obfuscation from the shapeshifting hypocrisy we have become used to from the Leader of the Opposition. Only a little while ago he was accusing the government of running a protection racket for the banks. Well, who is doing that now? Who is flinging up all sorts of obscurity and questions which are readily answerable from the budget papers, in the same form they have been from time immemorial? But of course the Leader of the Opposition is trying to crab walk away from the bank levy. He wants to crab walk away from that, just like he crab walked away from his commitment to fully funding the NDIS, just like he crab walked away from the workers at Cleanevent—
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