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

Well, I'm not going to let you get away with this view. I'm not. The zombie measures, the terminating measures, the pork-barrelling and the failure to deal with the big pressures on the budget that happened on your watch—we have been left to resolve them. We are the responsible fiscal managers of the budget, and people will see, as we go through the detail of what we inherited, just what vandals you were. Looking out and saying, 'We're managing everything,' while sweeping it all under the carpet; pork-barrelling to friends; failing to fund things properly, and having them all fall off a funding cliff in June this year—that's the legacy you leave, and that's the challenge that we are dealing with in the budget.