Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, I raise a point of order. The general business motion is that the Senate condemns the government—and I remind Senator Smith that he is now part of the government—for its failure to rule out cuts to health and education programs. That was the commitment that was given by Mr Abbott prior to the election, and now we see and we know that in relation to the Commission of Audit as announced by the Treasurer no area of the budget has been ruled out.