Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite do not want to ask about health. They do not want to ask about education. They simply want to inflict more pressure, more pain, on people in western Sydney. People in western Sydney are already feeling the pressure from the savage budget cuts inflicted by the O'Farrell government on schools and hospitals, and there is more to come if those opposite are elected in the coming election. Last time Mr Abbott was a minister in a government he cut $1 billion out of the health budget and he supported Work Choices which took away—

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