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

No, it doesn't. I don't think the Treasurer or I have made a secret of the fact that the inflation challenge is the biggest challenge that we are focusing on the in the economy. It's staying higher than we would like for longer than we would like. And we are responding to that in the areas where the government has a job to do, which is to, as I said, roll out the cost-of-living relief measures; $23 million have been rolled out over the last two budgets. It's to get the budget in much better shape—which we have done, which you fail to recognise—through our savings measures. And, in fact, that goes back to the last question I just answered. Remember, robodebt was a budget savings measure. Where we find actual savings to return to budget, you hounded people who were living on income support payments to bolster your budget bottom line. That's what you did. (Time expired)