Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker. Of course, there is no black hole. We stand behind all of the figures contained in the budget. That is not what I was adverting to in my previous comment; I was making the point that the coalition has gone around the community saying that prices are going to go up and up, in this moronic manner of political opportunism—and yet they are now complaining that the price is going to be lower. They are complaining about it! What is represented in the budget, of course, are figures that are revised projections by the Treasury. There were extensive—

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