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

This change demonstrates that the 'I'm too lazy' response from the opposition no longer works, because someone else will do the work if you just give them your policies.

That is what you want to do anyway: you want to use accountants who are fined for unprofessional conduct and you want to use catering companies. But now you have a Parliamentary Budget Office. The reason you do not want to commit to the Charter of Budget Honesty—Peter Costello's Charter of Budget Honesty—is that you do not want to commit to showing the costs of your policies and your cuts to the Australian people prior to the election.

That is what you do not want to tell them. Remember $70 billion and two years of the age pension. The reality is that those opposite do not want to front up with the truth. They do not want to tell Australians what they are going to cut before the election.