Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Australians would miss out on assistance in relation to climate change if the coalition were to be elected. What they would miss out on is tax cuts, what they would miss out on are increases to pensions and other allowances—these are all the things that those opposite oppose. They will have to go to the next election telling Australian pensioners that they will get less. They will have to go to the next election saying to Australians that everyone earning under $80,000 a year will pay more under an Abbott government. That is the coalition's policy. That is before they rip away health services like Mr Abbott did when he was the minister for health, ripping a billion dollars out of public hospitals—