Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The first thing to say is there is no budget black hole. Unlike the opposition, the government will provide full details of the government's finances in the midyear economic financial statements. So, when MYEFO is published, all our spending and all our income will be revealed. Unlike the Liberal Party, we also will honour the Charter of Budget Honesty. We will not get a catering company to run around and do the figures for us to try and pretend that our books balance; we will actually produce Treasury endorsed figures that reflect the true state of the federal government's finances. Any decisions to change funding allocations will be revealed in MYEFO or budget decisions. I am not going to rule in or rule out any changes that may be made on any program until such decisions are taken and formally revealed in the normal way.