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Just on the question of whether the Treasurer should turn up to a Senate hearing to explain the Job Keeper bungle... worth going back 28 years to recall Paul Keating's response when the same was suggested of his Treasurer John Dawkins.... 1/3
It produced his most famous epithet. Here's what he told the House of Reps, November 4, 1992:

"You want a Minister from the House of Representatives chamber to wander over to the unrepresentative chamber to account for himself. You have got to be joking..." 2/3
"Whether the Treasurer wished to go there or not, I would forbid him going to the Senate to account to this unrepresentative swill over there."
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