Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

They make it up by the minute. The fact is that it does not make any sense at all to add up the contingent liabilities in the statement of risk—none whatsoever. No-one else in the world does. Nobody serious in the economic profession does and no-one serious in this House does. It just shows you how irresponsible those opposite have become; how desperate they have become. It is simply not valid to do that. Many of those that he quoted are remote and unquantifiable.

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