Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the government has already said that we will have more to say about the plans for a National Disability Insurance Scheme next year. I would anticipate, as we have also said, that you should have regard to the sorts of savings decisions we have already made to see the approach that we would take to funding a whole range of priorities. Let us recall that this government has: delivered: an increase in the age pension, delivered the first statutory Paid Parental Leave scheme, increased child care, doubled school funding and increased funding to universities and research and infrastructure. We have done so by ensuring that we made savings in the budget—many of which have been opposed by those opposite—and we will continue the same responsible approach to funding priorities that we have demonstrated to date.