"what would bowen know about finance and the treasury matters when he couldn't even stop the boats?"
Now that "knowabout finance" jibe is a bit unfair wogarlb.
Turtlehead Bowen did at least learn how to count [boats, heads on boats, detention centres, staff, wages, etc] while he was in charge of Operation Open Floodgates.
However your "the treasury matters" jibe is warranted because as Han' or Hairy will show us via a 2013 election video when KRudd was reinstated and Swan dumped as chief bean counter for the 2013 Election campaign it was Bowen who joined Rudd and Penny Wong [Finance Minister] in the renowned Three Wise Monkeys affair.
These three vandals, these Labor liars, invented a sham Election claim, from memory they called it "Joe Hockeys $10 billion Black Hole" and they got caught red-handed telling whoppers because they thought the top three public service heads of the Treasury and Finance Dep'ts would back them but no all three sang for their supper blowing the "3 Wise Monkey" gang by exposing their plot, preferring to tell the truth and keep their jobs as the writing was on the wall that Labor would lose the election.
Here is the story about goose Swan's successor Chris Bowen, and Penny Wong and KRudd's fraudulent claim.
Treasury undermines Labor claim of Liberal's $10 billion black hole
Joe Hockey says the Government ''must stop playing games''. Picture: Kym Smith Source: HeraldSun LABOR'S economic credibility has been rocked after Treasury, in an unprecedented step, undermined Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's claim of a $10 billion black hole in the Coalition's election promises.
The Opposition said the Government had been caught out lying.
"This is a massive blow to the Government's credibility," shadow treasurer Joe Hockey said.
"The Government must stop playing games now."
The Prime Minister [Rudd] had said there was a "massive $10 billion hole" in $31 billion of Coalition cuts, saying: "This is a $10 billion fraud on the Australian people."
Treasurer Chris Bowenand Finance Minister Penny Wong said "protected" and "sensitive" documents from Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Office showed the Opposition Leader's numbers did not add up.
But Tony Abbott said he stood by his figures: "Mr Rudd has got all his own figures wrong and now he's wrong about our figures too."
Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson and Department of Finance head David Tune said they had not run the ruler over Coalition promises.
"At no stage prior to the caretaker period has either department costed Opposition policies," they said.
"Different costing assumptions, such as the start date of a policy, take-up assumptions, indexation and the coverage that applies, will inevitably generate different financial outcomes."
Parliamentary Budget Officer Phil Bowen said it was "inappropriate" [a lie] to say a document he prepared in April, released by the Government on Thursday, related to Coalition promises' cost.
"Unless all of the policy specifications were identical, the financial implications of the policy could vary markedly," he said.
Mr Hockey said Opposition policies were costed by the PBO,
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