Daniel Mulino (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to thank all members who have contributed to the debate on the 2025-26 supplementary additional estimates appropriation bills. I won't speak at length on this debate, but I do want to briefly correct the record when it comes to what is frankly a shameful and inaccurate characterisation of question time by the shadow Treasurer when it came to a question he asked the Prime Minister about the way trusts for vulnerable people will be treated moving forward. As the Prime Minister clearly said in his answer, arrangements were set out in the budget that vulnerable children, special discretionary trusts and other kinds of arrangements like that will be exempted from changes in the budget.

For the shadow Treasurer, who asked a question that was clearly based not in fact but in a misunderstanding of what was in the budget, to come in here and, out of his embarrassment, misrepresent what the Prime Minister said is, frankly, quite pathetic. Other than that, I would like to thank all members, and I commend these bills to the House.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.

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