Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked: are you concerned which departments or agencies will be targeted by cuts and also because the ABC continue to have its funding cut?

He replied:

"We'll be in a position to realise some $2.7 billion in savings off the departmental expenditure budget.

Now if our senior public servants, and they're paid well, if they can't find $2.7 billion... well, I've got a lot more confidence in them that they can achieve that.

"This is a sensible practical measure, which is I think responsibly being applied to ensure that you responsibly manage your expenditure. It doesn't impact on programs or services at all, never has. And we've ensured particularly the key agencies that are areas of national security. And so it sorts of things can have a bigger impact. There's a long list of them I won't have time to detail but that's the difference with transparency.

We had a budget before we went into the election and we've been very transparent about our costings all the way through.

This is responsible budgetary management, we've made commitments in this election, and we ensure that we pay for them. That's how you manage your budget."