Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

The $155 billion provided in the budget as departmental expenses in 2024-25 is projected to grow to $169 billion in 2027-28 almost entirely from increases in defence and the NDIS. How could your forward projections show flat or reduced costs for, in effect, the entire government except the NDIS and defence when the budget puts inflation over that period at 13 per cent? Does your budget dramatically understate projected deficits?