Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

to what we spend at present on the entire health and hospitals budget. So, Leader of the Opposition, if you are going to stand here and pontificate and say that you are not going to borrow to offset against a collapse in tax revenue, name the portfolio, not the program, you are going to abolish. It is either the entire hospitals funding from the Commonwealth to the states, 2½ Defence budgets or more than the entire education spend and a whole lot on top.

These are the decisions that we confront in the period ahead. Those opposite always resile from positive news. Did you notice how they disappeared last week when there was, for the month that has just passed, some positive news when it came to unemployment? The Leader of the Opposition disappeared into the abyss; he was not to be seen. The member for North Sydney—

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