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

How embarrassing: a party that claims to be fiscally responsible now is found out, now is caught out. A policy that was supposed to cost just over $10 billion will in fact cost $30 billion, another addition to your budget black hole. How embarrassing. One wonders what happened. Did Mr Robb not check the figures before the policy was released before the last election? Did they all—Senator Cormann and others—just rely on Mr Hunt to do it right? Well, he has led you up the garden path, and it is utterly embarrassing.