Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Families and Social Services) | Hansard source

The reason that the waits are so long, as you put it, and have been reduced significantly under this government is the fact that 115,000 people have gone on it in the last 12 months. I will go back to my point, and that is that we inherited a program that was half built when we got it. But the problem was, as was said by the NDIA review, that basically what we inherited from those opposite was an agency that is like a plane which took off before it had been fully built and is being completed whilst it's in the air. We've completed it while it's in the air. If you'd like to have a look at what you left us—and we are delivering on the plan.