Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (14:01): I thank Senator Hume for the question and for the opportunity to talk about what a strong, responsible budget we have handed down. In answer to the figures that Senator Hume has read out, I don't trust those figures because I've just worked through this budget and all the dodgy budgeting that went into their years in government—the hidden funding cliffs, the underresourcing, the failing to account. A significant part of the investments we are making in this budget is to deal with funding that just terminated and was never accounted for in their budget. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Gallagher, please resume your seat. Senator Henderson? Senator Henderson: Interjections are disorderly. Senator Watt was interjecting from the moment the question was asked. I would ask if you could bring him into order. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Henderson. I'm very glad that you noted that interjections are disorderly because there were interjections across the chamber. I remind all senators that interjections are disorderly, as Senator Henderson has reminded everyone. When questions are asked and ministers are on their feet, I expect all senators in this place to respect the silence that's required. Senator GALLAGHER: This budget takes pressure off families while not adding to pressure on inflation. We have done our job in finely and carefully calibrating this budget so that we don't add to inflation but so we are able to provide sensible cost-of-living relief for those that need support the most, while at the same time making historic investments in bulk-billing in Medicare, tripling the Medicare bulk-billing incentive to make it easier for parents of children, for concession card holders and for pensioners to ensure that when they need to see a doctor they get that consultation bulk-billed. That's what you get under an Labor government: not dodgy budgeting and failing to account but fiscal discipline, investments where they need to be made, cleaning up the mess of nine years of your administration and putting the budget on a more sustainable, more resilient footing so that we can make room for the things that we know Australians depend on and expect from their government. That is the approach we took in this budget. I am very proud of this budget—very proud indeed—because we have had to balance a range of competing pressures to land a document that is right for the current economic challenges and circumstances we face. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Hume, a first supplementary question?