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

I will say again: when the government finalises its decisions on the carbon price the government will account for it properly in its next update, just as Mr Howard did on the GST. I think really we all know what is going on here. Those on the other side have no answer to this question: how would you bring the budget back to surplus? They have no idea on that question of how you would bring the budget back to surplus. So they want to create as much noise and palaver as possible. They want to continue to talk about the carbon price and they want to beat their chests about fiscal discipline but not put up their plan. The reality is that they are doing this to avoid showing any responsibility themselves, and people know it. (Time expired)