Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I was getting ahead of myself! Firstly, I completely reject the premise of the question, which relates to the suggestion in relation to Senator Sinodinos. Senator Sinodinos is a fine man of the highest integrity, who has been doing an outstanding job as the Assistant Treasurer. We all look forward to his return to the Assistant Treasurer position in due course.

In the meantime, I am very happy to confirm that the government will continue to implement the policy commitments that we took to the last election. We know that is a novel concept for people on the Labor side, who go to an election and promise one thing but do the exact other thing after the election. We know that the Labor Party has taken that to another level today: they promised one thing today and did the exact opposite on the same day. They promised one thing in Western Australia before the election and did the exact opposite in the chamber today. (Time expired)