Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I will ask the Minister for Health and Aged Care to provide a further update to the figures that I've just mentioned about the progress of the vaccination program. I know it is a mystery to those opposite about how budgets are put together and how they work. There are assumptions in the budget that Treasury pull together based on their assessment of the circumstances, and that helps them with their assessment of estimates. That is how budgets are done.

I know it's been a long time since they have been in an expenditure review committee and they don't have the skills or the experience to understand how budgets are put together. They didn't do a particularly good job of it when they were last in government. So it may be a mystery to them. Perhaps we should offer them courses in how budgets are put together. Perhaps that could be one of the many courses. There are a lot of training courses that we are providing. Maybe we should introduce a training course to the Labor Party on how to prepare a budget and how to engage in responsible expenditure to secure Australia's future. Perhaps we should put training programs to the Labor Party on how to develop economic policies to support the Australian people. But I will allow the Minister for Health and Aged Care to add further to the answer.

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