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

I thank Senator Pratt for the supplementary question. Here in Australia we do have some advantages that will position the economy well to withstand the worst of these challenges, but, as the OECD report identifies, some of these are intensifying, not disappearing, and the Australian economy will not be immune from these impacts.

We are a government that from day one have been upfront with Australians about the situation now and what we forecast to be the challenges we will collectively face in the future. This is a stark difference to the kind of government we saw when those opposite were in office. As I said, this is not aided by the state of the books we inherited, which aren't in good shape. We are making some—