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

This government has implemented a range of social reforms over five years. They include health care, pension reform, paid equity and paid parental leave, and all of these have been fully funded and properly accounted for—unlike those opposite who have never complied with Peter Costello's Charter of Budget Honesty, who used accountants who were found to have breached professional conduct rules when they did their so-called audit of Liberal Party election promises and whose immigration costings are based on the advice of a catering company.

I can say through you, Mr President, to Senator Abetz: in relation to those policies, this government will comply with the Charter of Budget Honesty that Peter Costello put in place, and I invite him to make the same commitment on behalf of the coalition.