Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. The leaking of the bank tax on budget day saw billions of dollars wiped off the stock market. Is the Treasurer aware that the secretary of the Treasury told Senate estimates about the leak, saying: 'I have seen nothing in the time I have been secretary to make me think it came from the Treasury.'? The secretary of the Treasury is satisfied the leak did not come from the just five Treasury officials who knew about the bank tax. Can the Treasurer categorically rule out that the leak came from him or his office?

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