Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, President. Well, the opposition's policies would be working against monetary policy, I'd have to say—or, as I understand them. I'm not sure who's got the power at the moment. But this question comes from the highest-spending, highest-borrowing government in Australia's history. That's what you guys were. My job is to try to fix that: to rebalance the budget, end the rorts, tidy up the waste, get rid of the waste, find the savings where I can find them and invest in the productive side of the economy, which is absolutely in line, hand-in-hand, with monetary policy if you are investing in the productive side of the economy and putting downward pressure on the inflation and interest rates that we inherited from you lot!