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

to this multiple-choice question. Which of the following is true: (a) the member for Lilley delivered four surpluses in one night; (b) the member for Lilley raised $11 billion from the mining tax in two years; (c) the member for Lilley provided a secure, identifiable source of funds to fully provide for the $11.3 billion NDIS; (d) the member for Lilley was named world's best Treasurer? In an excruciating twist of irony, the only one of those four that it is true is the final one.

The member for Lilley claims that a missing $5 billion actually exists. The Commonwealth government will be committed to $11.3 billion worth of funding to the NDIS. Of that, $1.1 billion comes from existing Commonwealth funding, $3.3 billion from the Medicare levy and $1.9 billion from existing specialist disability services. That leaves a gap of $5 billion. We have created an account into which we will place identified—

Mr Swan interjecting—

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