Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

I might say, with respect to this issue of fairness, the opposition today have agreed to at least one small part of the savings package that we have proposed—half a billion dollars. They believe that that is completely fair and we would agree that that is a fair saving. But when you consider the borrowings that are engaged in to fund things that we cannot restrain today, such as in family tax benefits B or in a whole range of other areas inside the welfare system, if we allow the situation to persist for too long where we are borrowing money to fund the—

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