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

We have been prepared to make changes to the budget, savings in the order of $130 billion, in order to fund Labor priorities. We will continue to do that, continue to make the right choices, so that we can fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme, so that we can fund a better future for our children. I say to the Leader of the Opposition: what I can say for the government is, through MYEFO and through the budget and then through the process of the election campaign, we will publish all of the credentialled figures through Treasury. You will know where we stand and what we value from the figures that we make sure are checked and are right and are published.

The Leader of the Opposition will not match that commitment. Having gone through the last election campaign and generated an $11 billion black hole, he stands today for $70 billion worth of cutbacks and he is on the run from revealing that truth. We will be very pleased to lay our values open for inspection. We stand by them and we are proud of them. (Time expired)

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