Lee Rhiannon (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, considering you have really just linked the aid budget with the surplus, how will further cutting the foreign aid budget deliver the new aid paradigm announced by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and retain excellent aid programs that have seen over a million boys and girls enrolled in school and about 2.8 million children vaccinated against life-threatening diseases? These are some of the programs that are under threat if you continue to reduce spending in the coming period.