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

Sorry—Mr Hockey and Mr Robb did. If you do not like it, maybe you should rock up to Shadow ERC and say, 'Oh, this $70 billion is a bit of a problem,' because it is your figure, but you refuse to tell Australians what you will do in order to find those cuts. You refuse to tell Australians what you want to do. You refuse to comply with any principles of sensible budget transparency or the Peter Costello Charter of Budget Honesty. You simply refuse to do that.

I am also asked about the pension. Which was the government that delivered a historic increase to the age pension? Was it the Howard government over 11 years? Or was it this government, a Labor government, that delivered the historic increase to the pension? Those are Labor priorities, Senator.