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

Thank you very much, and can I thank Senator Reynolds for highlighting the mess that they left us. I really appreciate it. I've been looking forward to dorothies on terminating measures. I didn't expect to get a dorothy from Senator Reynolds on terminating measures. We went through and made decisions, in the time we could, for October. We were elected in May. We went straight into putting forward the October budget. We did what we could. I think we indicated at the time that there was more work to be done. And there will continue to be work to be done, as we uncover these issues, as agencies bring them forward, through the processes of the budget, and we deal with them. Because that's what responsible governments do. Responsible governments don't have zombie measures propping up their budgets. Responsible governments don't fail to address pressures that are about to hit the budget. Responsible governments do it the way we are doing it.