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

The problem for the Labor Party is that they are so juvenile. They think they can ask their student-politicky-type questions day in, day out and that somehow they are going to have a 'gotcher' moment here. Let me confirm again: every budget, from time immemorial, has got measures on the revenue side of the budget and measures on the expenditure side of the budget. Since we have been the government, we have been working to get spending growth under control, to get the unsustainable spending growth trajectory that we inherited from Labor under control, and we have been working to make our tax system more growth-friendly. That is why in last year's budget we delivered tax cuts for small business. That is why in previous budgets— (Time expired)