Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to the government's decision to abandon two of its key budget measures—its plan to automatically index the passenger movement charge regardless of economic conditions facing the tourism industry and its plan to double the withholding tax on managed investment trusts. Is this further evidence that two weeks before these measures are due to begin, on 1 July, Labor's budget is in complete chaos? Isn't this just another example of a government that has lost control of its own budget?