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

I thank Senator Tyrrell for the question. I would say that the budget weighs up a whole range of different needs, and there isn't a shortage of areas where people are coming to me, as the Minister for Finance, wanting extra investment, whether it be in the NDIS—people have seen the pressure there—in the health budget, in the work that's underway in education, in the areas of defence or in managing Australia's debt. The budget has to do all of these things. When we work through the budget process, we have to weigh up a whole range of things on the revenue side and on the expenditure side, and we will do that. They're unrelated in the sense of how you put the question together. We've made some decisions around PRRT, but, at the same time, we are making a lot of room to invest in women and women's economic equality. I'll get the report from the task force soon, and that will inform further decisions. (Time expired)