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

You certainly tell it straight in that program, as always, Senator McGrath. I was struck by the way in which the approach of the then Treasurer, Mr Morrison, to tax reform was to leak it. There was the Prime Minister of the day and the Leader of the Government in the Senate of the day, and they had a furious row because it was leaked. Do you know what we did and what the Prime Minister did? The Prime Minister took it. The Treasurer took it to ERC. We dealt with it at ERC. We took it to cabinet, we took it to caucus and we announced it.

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