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

Coming from a man who knows he has to find at least $70 billion of cuts to services that Australians need, and we can see in the Victorian Liberal government and in the Newman government in Queensland precisely the approach that Senator Cormann will want to take—cutting frontline services, cutting jobs, cutting education—just what Liberals always do when they are confronted with a budget black hole, and that is what they have.

We know that, for all of the chest-beating by those on the other side, that economic team has never come up with a costing that added up. Not once. They go to catering companies and accounting firms who are found to have acted unprofessionally. Not once have their costings added up. And the consequence is: they will have to do far worse than what Premier Baillieu and Premier Newman are already inflicting on their populations.