Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. Yesterday in this House the Treasurer, in relation to the Queensland reconstruction, said:

There is no way of funding it without a levy …

I refer the Treasurer to the Prime Minister’s statement at the National Press Club on 27 January, in which she said—and effectively repeated today in the parliament—that if more money was needed:

The money will come from cuts somewhere else.

How does the Treasurer explain the contradiction in these statements?

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