House debates
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Questions without Notice
Budget
2:58 pm
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
We put significant investment in our budgets to make sure that that delay where people literally were leaving this Earth while they were waiting for payments to come through—it was a complete outrage. It is one of the things that led us to a significant increase in public servants so that we could clear that backlog. I might see if either of the ministers want to supplement.
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