Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I said to the Treasury, 'Give me a copy.' I thought it was a legitimate question; I am the Treasurer. I said, 'Give me a copy of that Treasury modelling commissioned by the previous Labor government for increasing the GST.' They said, 'Treasurer, we can't. Under convention we cannot release that information.' I said, 'How am I going to get it?' They said, 'You can ask the Labor Party to release all the modelling they did on increasing the GST.'

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