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

with all of these ongoing programs which aren't funded in an ongoing way. So in our first budget, in October, we had to spend more than $4 billion to make up for these cover-ups when it came to essential government programs that weren't funded in an ongoing way—unlegislated zombie measures that were never going to pass the parliament—and the failure of those opposite to adequately provision for funding for the COVID response.

Once again, in May, we will need to find billions of dollars—

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