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

That was really an exercise in theatrics. The senator would know, because he has asked me ad nauseam, that I do stand behind the Treasury modelling. I refer him to both my public statements—which occasionally he does read; he tweets about them—and the statements in the chamber in response to him. I have said on many occasions that we stand by the Treasury modelling, which is still the best estimate of what will occur in relation to economic impact, global carbon prices and so forth on a whole range of issues associated with the carbon package. I fail to see how the senator can draw the conclusion he has drawn in the supplementary question from my primary question answer.