Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, in relation to the size of the Public Service, the Minister for Finance stated:

… I think we've resourced it properly now.

Yet the PBO costing in Labor's own budget confirms that 'the budget will assume a reduction in the APS' that the minister has in fact ruled out. Given the Prime Minister has committed to being honest about his budgets, how does he explain this shoddy deception?