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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Does the finance minister consider questioning $10 billion decisions to be nitpicking? What does it say about the government’s financial discipline when $10 billion is committed without any detailed costing or cabinet consideration? Isn’t this a case of financial discipline and proper process being tossed aside by a government in search of a headline? Is this the approach to government expenditure and decision making that he as finance minister supports?