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

ALLAGHER (—) (): The Cabinet Handbook was followed, and I can assure the senator that we are an orderly, adult, responsible government. We take matters of integrity and honesty very seriously. We don't introduce illegal schemes like robodebt, which pursued vulnerable people in the name of budget repair. Remember that? It was going to raise $4 billion and repair the budget. What you didn't say was: 'It's illegal. We're going to hound vulnerable people who don't owe us money. We're going to threaten to send them to jail.' That's what happened over here. We are not that type of government. All arrangements as set out in the Cabinet Handbook, including declarations of relevant conflicts, are followed in accordance with those arrangements.