Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I've said, I understand that the proposal involves a recognition that we have just had a budget; therefore, there is not intended to be a MYEFO. It is usual that additional estimates would follow MYEFO. I would anticipate that the usual pattern of budget MYEFO, with additional, supplementary and budget estimates would be returned, as we said post the election, to the normal MYEFO and budget process. Again I say no-one on in this place—I suspect, even on that side—believes it when you talk about transparency, Senator Birmingham, because we lived through nine years of your government refusing to legislate an anticorruption commission— (Time expired)