Prime Minister ScottMorrisonMP says the Labor Party doesn’t have the “skills or experience” to understand the budget process and “didn’t do a particularly good job” when it was last in government.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Labor Party doesn’t have the “skills or experience” to understand the budget process and “didn’t do a particularly good job” when it was last in government. Shadow Health Minister Mark Butler asked the prime minister why he said the budget was “based on assumptions not policy settings”. “I know it is a mystery to those opposite about how budgets are put together and how they work,” Mr Morrison said.
“There are assumptions in the budget that Treasury pulled together based on their assessment of the circumstances and that helps them with their assessment of estimates. “That's how budgets are done. I know it's been a long time since they've been in an expenditure review committee and they don't have the skills or experience to understand how budgets are put together. “It may be a mystery to them, perhaps we should offer them courses on budgets on how to put it together.
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