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

Thank you, Senator Polley, for your follow-up question. There will be a positive impact, for an additional $3.2 billion is being made available to Australians in the first three months of 2021. You cannot characterise an increase in spending of $3.2 billion as a cut and, equally, you cannot suggest that there is going to be a negative impact on the economy of additional spending of $3.2 billion. I'm not sure whether you just do not understand the budgetary process and how that works or whether you're genuinely trying to be disingenuous about the question—