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

is trying suggest that the ABC should be a protected species, but he is not even straight about that, because when he was asked yesterday, 'Would you reverse the cuts if you took office?' he replied, 'We don't think the cuts need to be as deep as they are.' So tell us: just what should be cut? What should be cut? And when he was put on the spot he said, 'We wouldn't be making the same extent of cuts to the ABC.' So, there is the difference. Well, what cuts would the Leader of the Opposition be making? If the Leader of the Opposition does not like the savings that the government is proposing, if he wants to be fair dinkum and if he wants to avoid the charge of hypocrisy or even fraud, he should tell us exactly what he has in mind.

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