Senate debates Questions without Notice

Budget


Katy Gallagher

Katy Gallagher ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service

2:58 pm

Well, that wasn't actually confirmed at Senate estimates. The Prime Minister has been repeatedly briefed, and the Secretary of Treasury also confirmed this, through our standard processes, through ERC and other committee processes; it was made clear that the Prime Minister had been briefed—had been consistently briefed; was involved in all of those discussions. So it's just wrong to say that.

And, for the first time, we actually have a prime minister that's doing his job, not taking everybody else's job, and leading a government whose sole focus is on how to manage the economic circumstances we currently live in—

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