Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition have got themselves into such a mess that, if they were to be elected, they would have no alternative other than to slash education, slash health and slash aged-care spending. They have promised the wealthy that they will support a parental leave scheme that supports the most wealthy; they have promised that they will support the most wealthy with a private health insurance rebate; they have promised the big miners that they will support them by ending the resource rent tax; they have also promised that they will tax small business more by removing the concessions that we are about to put in place; they promised Australian workers that they will take away the extra super that we will provide; they promised that they have a totally unsustainable set of priorities that have a $70 billion black hole, that seeks to reward the most wealthy in our community while looking to cut health and education services to ordinary Australians, because they will have to find $70 billion. (Time expired)