Treasurer Joe Hockey has breached the Charter of Budget Honesty by failing to publish the latest Intergenerational Report on time.

Treasurer Joe Hockey. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

In a further sign the government is distracted by internal chaos, the Treasurer has not met the timeframe to publish the report within five years of the last one, despite a legislated requirement to do so.

The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 requires that Intergenerational Reports be publicly released and tabled within five years of the preceding report, and the last report was released by Treasurer Wayne Swan on February 1 2010, and tabled in both houses of parliament on February 3 2010.