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

And who was in government then? This is an inflation challenge that we inherited. We inherited this challenge. The government has a plan to deal with it. It's to deal with cost-of-living relief, where we don't add to inflation. It's to deal with some of the supply chain problems that we've been seeing as a result of the war in Ukraine and the end of the pandemic. The third thing is to deal with the budget mess that we inherited from you lot and to show spending restraint in some of the decisions that we take in the May budget. So it's incorrect to say that the government doesn't have a plan. We do have a plan. We are implementing the plan, and we look forward to more of that in the budget.