Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. The Mr Abbott debt truck—a $10.6 billion election black hole; a climate change policy that cost $20 billion more than they have costed and that they told the Australian people; and locked savings measures of $5 billion. How embarrassing. But it has been added to by the Mr Abbott spendathon, which in part has been led by those in this chamber seeking to impose greater expenditure on the Commonwealth budget without any savings measures. And now there is this fabulous idea that they have concocted over the weekend of an $80 million plebiscite!

Opposition senators interjecting—