Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We will fund our Labor agenda by finding offsetting savings and making the necessary arrangements in the government's budget, as we have shown our ability to do, and we will bring the budget to surplus. We will do those things just as we have done. We found $100 billion of savings to fund key aspects of our agenda. We will continue to work to manage the government's budget responsibly at every step of the way and to bring the budget to surplus. The risk to the budget, of course, is the plans of the Leader of the Opposition—the $70 billion that he intends to cut out of schools, cut out of health, cut out of support to families. This week we have had revealed to us one of the big targets, and that is state schools.

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