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Gallagher: spending audit is an ongoing piece of work'

And it will continue, Katy Gallagher says:

My view is finance minister is that this is a process that should keep going. We've identified obviously, some of that the short term work and that will be reported in the budget.

But this spending audit should should keep going. We should do it in every budget, just to make sure that we're constantly looking at ways we're spending money and I think the Australian public would expect us to do that, that it's not always adding in new spending when there's ... need that arises, and there will be, but we're looking at existing expenditure as well and how we can reuse that or ... realign it with ... new investments.

It's not exclusively infrastructure. We are finding savings across government. We have gone to every single department and ask them to look at their programs to identify programs that don't need to be done any longer or don't align with government priorities and where we've been able to return some money to the budget we're doing that.

The other part of it is actually not adding new funding to things but using existing funding to fund some of our our priorities. So it's been a very useful exercise and I think $22bn is a pretty reasonable figure to have achieved over just, you know, a couple of months in government.