Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. I'll say that both the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and the Minister for Veterans' Affairs might want to supplement my answer. I say this when it comes to veterans—we have significant additional investment in this budget as a result of the royal commission into veteran suicide and the response. That comes on top of something like $800 million, which is the package in this budget.

In addition to that, of course, one of the big expenditures that we had upon coming to government was addressing the backlog that was there of people waiting forever and ever. The member for Calare knows something about this because he stood up, to his great credit, to the former government—of which he was a part, as a minister—and said he was just not going to cop the cuts that were there in the budget.

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