Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for her answer and note her reference to the constrained fiscal environment. So I ask: when the government struggles to find funds to properly resource vital institutions like ASIC, is it appropriate for the Treasurer to use his economic note this weekend to boast that the government is collecting $24 billion less in tax revenue this year than the Howard government did in its final year?