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

Mr President, I am very happy to answer that, although it is not a supplementary question, I would submit. I am not sure what it had to do with a carbon price.

Unlike those opposite, the government have a clear plan to return the budget to surplus in 2012-13 and we are determined to get there. We laid that plan out in the budget, we made the savings decisions that were required, we exercised restraint in expenditure so that, on average, the growth in expenditure is one per cent—