Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

You either do or you do not. You either offset all new spending—discretionary spending, of course—or you do not. So which is the fiscal rule? I am not talking about estimates variations, I am talking about discretionary decisions of government to increase expenditure. Is it the government's position that in the MYEFO it will offset all new spending?