Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his statement at the last election that only a re-elected Gillard Labor government has a plan to responsibly manage the Australian economy and bring the budget back to surplus in 2013 without slashing the health and education budgets. How does the Treasurer reconcile that statement with the government's $1.6 billion cut to public hospitals, its $3.9 billion cut to education and the ditching of its commitment to bring the budget back to surplus this year?

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