Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Di Natale asked me about the work being undertaken by the Commission of Audit, and I was providing a very direct answer to exactly what is happening there. We did inherit a budget in a mess after six years of bad Labor government. We do have to turn a very serious situation around. What we have already done so far is implement the savings that we took to the last election. The work of the Commission of Audit will build on that. We have asked the Commission of Audit to look right across government for opportunities to improve the efficiencies of the government's operation.