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

As I said, I do not believe that anybody thinks that Senator Cormann has any credibility talking about the budget if he will not come in here and say he will do what Peter Costello said everyone should do, which is to comply with the Charter of Budget Honesty. How embarrassing! The Labor Party will do what Peter Costello said is the right thing; the coalition, full of Costello acolytes, will not. They are leaving him behind. They say: 'Oh, we love Peter but we don't want to do what he said. Do you know why? Because it's a bit too hard; we'd rather use a catering company.' (Time expired)