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

Mr Speaker, it was a question about the 2009 budget and it was a question about tax and what the government may or may not do in that context and policies more generally in that context. It is not every day when you are the Treasurer of Australia that you get a birthday present from your opposite number, but I am pleased to tell the House that on 30 June this year the shadow Treasurer did give me such a birthday present. He attended a business function, I think in Sydney, and he made this statement. When he was asked a question about whether he would abandon the 2009-10 tax cuts, he said—

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