Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I have a sense of deja vu. It's only my second day on the job here, but I have a sense that I was asked this question yesterday and that I answered this question yesterday in pointing out that funding for the Australian National Audit Office keeps going up each and every year. Congratulations to those opposite—at estimates, they managed to flesh out that a government agency had asked for more money in the budget process and hadn't got everything that it asked for. But don't go around pretending that, somehow, increasing funding each and every year into the forward estimates is by any means a cut. It's not. It's more money. It enables them to continue to do their job.