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

I preface this by acknowledging that Australians are doing it tough, which is why our budget has been focused on making room for investments where we are able to afford it and to target those investments to areas of high need. In relation to the community sector, which does do an incredible job in relation to emergency provision of services, whether it be food relief or, indeed, housing, the government has fixed another one of the areas of your failure, which is the indexation rate, where you didn't even bother to index the community sector in a way where they could afford to continue their provision of services and pay their staff. We have come in and lifted that rock up and had a look at where you placed that rock—