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

My question is to the Treasurer. In the last two years, the Treasurer wasn't told that the date of the budget had changed, wasn't told about the plan for state income taxes, booked a Press Club speech to argue for a GST increase only to have the Prime Minister abandon the idea and was kept in the dark about the royal commission terms of reference, despite the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services working on them for a long time. Why is the Treasurer always out of the loop? Is it because he's also always out of his depth?

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