Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

President, I know responding to interjections is disorderly, but from the interjections I have managed to hear whilst I've been talking those opposite will be interested in the answer to this question. Despite what those opposite say, we do have a plan to deal with the economic challenges we face. Part of the plan is to deal with the waste and rorts that they had riddled through their budget—billions of dollars of waste and rorts, pork barrelling, the buying of seats and the buying of votes. That's part of our plan as we reorganise and reprioritise the budget. We have concrete plans—child care, cheaper medicines, cheaper and cleaner energy. We've got plans to grow wages—you get that; grow wages, not hold wages back which is what you did—and invest in skills and make sure that our people are ready for the jobs of the future. This is what a responsible government should have been doing for the past 10 years and what we're going to do now. (Time expired)