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

It is reinvested in the world's biggest medical research fund, which will find the treatments and cures we need so that our health system and the health of our people gets better in the years to come. That is our responsibility. Our responsibility is to do the right thing by the people of Australia. Our responsibility is not to make easy decisions but to make the right decisions, and that is what this budget has done. It has made the right but difficult and necessary decisions for the long-term future of the people of this country.

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