Senate debates

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:00 pm

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

The most interesting aspect of the question is that Senator Cormann does not know how many additional levies and taxes were in his own supposed $50 billion worth of cuts. Remember that the opposition went to the election with a levy to fund their paid parental leave scheme. We know that the opposition have included these sorts of things in the past as savings measures. If you want to apply that rule in terms of savings, your theoretical savings— (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—

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