House of Assembly Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1) 55 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Estimates Replies Estimates Replies Efficiency Dividend Efficiency Dividend In reply to Mr COWDREY House of Assembly Colton Efficiency Dividend In reply to Mr COWDREY (Colton) (29 June 2023). (Estimates Committee B) The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN House of Assembly Lee Treasurer Minister for Defence and Space Industries Efficiency Dividend The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer): The Malinauskas government did not apply a 1.7 per cent efficiency dividend to agencies. Across its two budgets, the Malinauskas government has sought to make savings by; diverting resources from programs that were not a priority for the government; introducing operating efficiencies in non-frontline services, and; allocating executive reductions to agencies. Both previously approved general operating efficiencies applied by the former government, and savings applied by the current government, form a part of an agency's base budget that the chief executive has the responsibility to manage. Additional savings sought by the Malinauskas government now also form agency base budgets across the forward estimates'. Given previously applied efficiency dividends simply form part of the agency's base budget, there is no specific monitoring of previously applied efficiency dividends other than standard monitoring of the agency's overall financial performance against its approved budget.