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

I am asked to guarantee, rule in or rule out. Firstly, I will guarantee that we will ensure that we properly cost and fund our policies. We will ensure that our budget adds up. We do not have $70 billion of cuts to services including in regional Australia, unlike those opposite. We will go through the proper budget process and no-one in this chamber would expect any minister to come in and do a rule-in rule-out when it comes to the budget. I can tell you this: we do not have $70 billion worth of services to cut, which is what the opposition has.

Honourable senators interjecting—