Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Can the minister indicate when the Department of Finance and Administration first became aware of the Prime Minister’s recent Murray-Darling Basin announcement? Can the minister advise when his department approved the costings associated with the announcement? Is it in fact the case that his department did not do any costings of the Prime Minister’s package before it was announced? Can the minister advise if the department has subsequently undertaken this costing work? Will he please indicate when these costings will be made public?