Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Will the minister explain, then, why any Australian should believe Labor's claims of returning to surplus when billions of dollars in carbon tax expenditure are unaccounted for and even the government and the minister himself will not guarantee that the carbon tax will erode their wafer-thin future surpluses?

Senator Wong interjecting—