Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I really do thank the member for Hume for his question because what he's done is expose the coalition plan for $315 billion of cuts. He stood up here at the dispatch box and he spoke about $315 billion of spending. The shadow finance minister said on 1 August, 'I can tell you exactly what we wouldn't have done: that additional $315 billion of spending.' That's what they say. It's confirmed by the shadow Treasurer and backed up by this Leader of the Opposition.

Let's have a look at what that is. There's indexation of the aged pension; apparently they're against that. There's indexation of income support payments; they're against that. We know they're against the 15 per cent pay rise for early educators. We know they're against the increased wages for aged-care workers. We now know that they are against funding for new medicines on the PBS—every one of them. Those life-saving drugs are all wasteful, those drugs that will help people in need with cancer and with diseases who need these drugs and need them listed so that they can be affordable. Under them, prices will go way up. We know they're against cheaper child care. We know that, just before question time, the deputy leader confirmed that they're against fee-free TAFE for the 500,000 Australians who have received it.

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