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

This government and I, as Minister for Finance, are focused on fixing the budget mess Labor left behind. If you are asking me whether I am running a leak inquiry, no, I am not running a leak inquiry but I would say that the report on the ABC on that particular day, which Senator Sterle refers to, was entirely inaccurate. It could not possibly be based on information from anyone who was in any way, shape or form involved in the budget process, as all the ministers on the Expenditure Review Committee were. Indeed, the work done by the Expenditure Review Committee was very positive, very collaborative, and involved, of course, a common purpose by Liberal and National party ministers to fix the budget mess we have inherited from Labor and includes a measure to reintroduce indexation of fuel excise arrangements to ensure that the fuel excise keeps pace with inflation. (Time expired)