Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

is that the member for Jagajaga was part of a team that had already made that saving, banked it and spent it. One needs only to look directly at the Labor Party's fiscal plan in its election document. In that, there is a very long list of what are known as 'reversals', on page 30. The list of reversals is long; but there is one thing suspiciously absent from the list of savings reversals, and that is the energy supplement. What then happened was the Leader of the Opposition was asked about the energy supplement and about Labor's fiscal plan. He said in an interview that the Labor position on savings measures after the 2016 election would be 'consistent with what was in the fiscal plan before the election'.

Ms Macklin interjecting—

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