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

I am acutely aware of the risks, particularly in the global economy, and I spoke about some of those yesterday. If the senator with an interest in this matter has taken the time to read the various IMF documents which have come out in the last couple of days, he would see that one of the things that is spoken of consistently by the IMF is the importance of a sound and transparent fiscal strategy. I would have hoped that the senator who was once in this portfolio in the opposition would care about the fact that his colleagues have no fiscal strategy, have a $70 billion black hole, went to the last election refusing to disclose to the Australian people what their policies cost—