Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The most significant risk comes from those opposite. We know this because when they were finally forced to put their election policies’ costings in for scrutiny there was a $10.6 billion black hole. No wonder they had to be dragged kicking and screaming by the Independents to actually ensure that their policies were properly scrutinised and costed. It was quite interesting watching the shadow finance minister through the election campaign doing a sort of pantomime version of the boy who did not want to do his homework in relation to submitting the costings to the Charter of Budget Honesty. First it was, ‘I left my homework at home,’ then it was, ‘I lost my homework,’ then it was, ‘I do not want to do my homework anyway.’ Even Mr Hockey— (Time expired)