Kristina Keneally (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Turnbull also told the Senate committee that the Minister for Finance and the current Prime Minister did not think the budget could accommodate the proposed investment for the reef in subsequent years. Is the government's projected surplus in the 2020-21 financial year so vulnerable that the government had to resort to this sort of dodgy process rather than allocate funding to the relevant agencies in the normal way?