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."