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

I thank Senator Hume for the question and for the opportunity to talk about what a strong, responsible budget we have handed down. In answer to the figures that Senator Hume has read out, I don't trust those figures because I've just worked through this budget and all the dodgy budgeting that went into their years in government—the hidden funding cliffs, the underresourcing, the failing to account. A significant part of the investments we are making in this budget is to deal with funding that just terminated and was never accounted for in their budget.