Senate debates
Monday, 22 June 2026
Questions without Notice
Economy, Migration
2:46 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) | Hansard source
I welcome the question on productivity because this budget had productivity right at the centre of the decision-making that we took. As Senator Roberts would know from attending estimates, as he does and has as a representative of his party—he knows, from all the advice that Treasury has provided, that productivity growth in the decade to 2020 was the slowest in 60 years. Get your heads around that as everyone points the finger: the slowest in 60 years was in the decade to 2020. We recognised, when we came to government—
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