Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that the government is obviously refusing to provide Treasury’s latest economic forecasts, how can the Prime Minister claim, as he did at the Press Club today, that ‘the government believes in absolute maximum transparency’? Why won’t the government provide the Senate with these revised forecasts now, given the government’s expectation that the Senate will pass the legislation required to give effect to its new spending package?