Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The one thing that all Australians know is that the Abbott government is a government of cuts. Add to that the fact that they said one thing before the election and they say another thing after the election. No cuts to health, no cuts to education, no cuts to the ABC: that was before the election. Guess what? We had an election and, since that election, this Abbott government has become a master of cuts.

If we look at education we see that $30 billion has been cut from Australia's schools by walking away from Labor's Gonski school funding model—something that every school in the Shortland electorate, be it public or private, supported. I suspect that every school in every electorate represented by those opposite supported it too. Not only did they promise one thing before the election and do another thing after it; they are also disadvantaging the constituents that they represent in this House. The cuts to health and hospitals are absolutely disgraceful. Once again I say: they said one thing before the election and another thing after the election. This government just cuts, cuts and cuts.