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

As I was saying, what is astonishing about the coalition is that not only do they completely ignore any requirement for costings, any requirement to comply with Peter Costello's charter of budget honesty, not only do they continue to want to use auditors who have acted unprofessionally and catering companies to do their costings—because they want to hide from the Australian people what their plans really are—but they always act as if the global financial crisis never occurred. They always act as if revenue has never changed, as if the global economy has never experienced its worst period since the Great Depression, and they always want to talk down the Australian economy which has come through this period of weakness and volatility internationally in far better shape than any other country, and I am actually very proud of that. (Time expired)