Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The review is being undertaken in June. The review will make recommendations, I would imagine, to the government, as would be its purpose, and then the government would consider those recommendations. It would consider the fiscal implications of those recommendations and it will take advice on that, as cabinets work. I appreciate the member who asked the question has never served in a cabinet, let alone an Expenditure Review Committee, or had any sort of ministerial responsibility for working through such decisions of great importance, but he might be educated on this point: when you make decisions of this gravity and this seriousness in a situation like this, you are very careful about it. That is what the government will do, and we have announced—

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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