Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong, quite extraordinarily, turned a promise of a surplus for this financial year into a $30 billion deficit, and that is after she banked $2.3 billion worth of cuts to higher education, which Senator Carr has now stopped Senator Wong from implementing. So here we are. Senator Wong banked the cuts. She was too weak to get them through the parliament before the election. She is too weak now to get them enforced through her own caucus after the election. Labor should— (Time expired)