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

Honestly, the nerve of these questions really is staggering. We inherited an economy with rising inflation and rising interest rates. Let's not forget this. As a result of nine years of you guys, with wasted opportunities, wrong or failed priorities, 22 energy policies, an energy crisis that we also inherited, a skills crisis that we also inherited, terminating measures that just drop off into the ether and a budget in a mess that we also inherited, we are dealing with the realities of what happens when you have a Prime Minister with 10 portfolios or more because he didn't trust any of you. He didn't trust any of you, and we're dealing with the mess.