Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks to the member for Paterson for her question. Six weeks tomorrow, from this dispatch box, the Albanese government will hand down its second budget, and we have been upfront about the pressures on the budget and the pressures on our economy which provide the context for that budget. In this environment there is, as always, a premium on what's responsible, what's affordable and methodical, and what is sustainable in the budget while also making sure that we continue to clean up the mess that we were left by those opposite. One of the biggest pressures on the budget in May will actually be programs which any normal human being would assume were ongoing programs but which those opposite funded, in lots of cases, only until the end of June this year. This is how those opposite booby trapped the budget that they left behind—

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