Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I know you are going to wind up this debate, but I want to get this in there before you do. I have just been looking at the financial costings of this package, where you have said that the financial impact of this amendment will be $370 million in 2008-09 and $65 million in 2009-10. This is how you are calculating your overall savings. In your first general outline of financial impact you talked about an all-up cost in 2008-09 of $8,150 million but your total cost in 2009-10 was $1 million. So how could we have a saving of $65 million when your initial costing was only $1 million?