Senate debates

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:35 pm

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

I'll take that. We didn't because there are so many of them. We dealt with the first bit in October. Just as we did with our spending audit. We did what we could in October and we said we would come back and look at this through the budget in May. And that is what we are doing. But we are also highlighting the fact that those opposite booby trapped the budget, dressed it up before an election, pretended that they were these responsible fiscal managers when, at the very same time, they were hiding pressures.

They had zombie measures in from 2016 that they still had in their bottom line, even though they were never going to get through this Senate. There was $4.1 billion of mess in October that we cleaned up, and you will see more of us cleaning up the mess, more of the results of cleaning up the mess, in May, because there was so much mess it couldn't all be done in the first economic update.

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