Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, we are proposing to remove the schoolkids bonus—but we were perfectly up front with the Australian people before the election. We did not hide the bad news from the Australian people before the election, unlike members opposite, who did precisely that: hid the bad news from the Australian people before an election—most notoriously when they said there would be no carbon tax under their government and there was.

The Leader of the Opposition says that we have cut assistance for bushfire victims. We have not. Australian disaster recovery payments have been made to people who were severely affected by that disaster.

The Leader of the Opposition claims that we have cut jobs at the CSIRO. Management of the CSIRO is a matter for the management of that organisation. It is as simple as that.

This all comes pretty rich from members opposite who, having said for ages that they were going to be the absolute protectors of the Australian Public Service, put policies in place that are now resulting in thousands of redundancies across the Australian Public Service.

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