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

The risk to fiscal discipline is the opposition. That is the risk to fiscal discipline. It is very interesting. My counterpart, Mr Robb, who I think we should call ‘the Great Pretender’ when it comes to fiscal responsibility, talks the talk. He says: ‘Spending, spending, spending; more commitments, bigger deficit, off into the future using all of the mining industry money. What a disgrace. What an absolutely irresponsible, inconsiderate, highly politicised approach.’