David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Given what I know about the program, I got, I must say, overinvolved in the issues. It may be, for an outsider looking in, that he is absolutely right, but the bottom line in all of this is that I have had to look across this table at someone who has delivered more than probably $500 million in a lost program and who has never told the truth about it, who has never taken responsibility for it, who has never confronted the reality of her mismanagement. She was the worst finance minister we have ever seen because she has been the owner of this organisation through the whole thing. Now how do I get through to her? That is the question and that is the frustration.