Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to page 25 of the Budget Overview for 2005-06, which states as follows in reference to the Future Fund:

The Fund will be quarantined from the rest of the budget …

and—

… Fund earnings will be excluded from the underlying cash balance …

Will the minister recommit to these foundation principles on which the Future Fund was established?