Oh Ted O’Brien is back. YAY.

He adjusts his tie before asking this question, which is a Ted O’Brien tell for ‘I am being very serious and I think this is a very important thing I am saying’.

I refer to the Treasurer’s claim in his previous answer he has a fiscal rule to control spend is to bank most of the upward revision in revenue. According to his own pre-election budget, the upward revision in revenue was $8 billion. He plans to blow the lot. Plus, another $26 billion. Will the Prime Minister insist his Treasurer introduce quant fiable fiscal rules to stop his spending spree?

While Sussan Ley is placeholder as leader, Ted O’Brien will have a very large role to play. Probably why so many of their colleagues are sounding out other leadership options already.