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

I'd like to know where the money will come from for nuclear power plants all over the country that haven't been costed yet. You've been very quiet about those, haven't you? You launched a big policy, and then everyone scurried away from it because you can't explain how you'll do it.

On what those opposite call wasteful spending, included in the amount that's used publicly—the $315 billion figure—is indexation of the aged-care pension, women's safety initiatives, energy bill relief, pay for aged-care and childcare workers, funding for new medicines on the PBS, cheaper child care and rent assistance. All of those things are what you, over there, consider to be wasteful spending. We don't. We think it's necessary spending, an investment in our community and in our country, and I think it gives just a little snapshot of what Australia would be like should you ever be in government again.