Senate debates
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:15 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source
Forty billion dollars in savings—zero in the March budget. You poured cash in in a pre-election cash splash, and there were zero savings. Part of the spending that we are doing in this financial year is to keep the lights on at the agencies and services that you were going to flick off. That's $11½ billion that we've had to make room for, find—unexpected, didn't know it was going to happen—in order to keep services going. That's the legacy of your government. (Time expired)
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