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

I am not in a position to agree with every aspect of that question. I have responded on behalf of the Treasurer to the issue you raised in the letter that I have described. In relation to the incoming government briefs—and, from memory, we have traversed quite a bit of this in estimates with both Treasury and Finance—the departments released the incoming government briefs in quite a transparent and accountable way. There were a range of issues in them which comprised advice to government, briefs to government, but not necessarily government decisions. These briefs were not released under your government.