Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly right, Senator Cormann—over the next decade. Everyone accepts that, whilst Labor made these wild and rash promises, there was never any funding base to those claims. So what the Labor Party does—in their traditional style—if they think they are going to lose office is that they make extravagant promises, they have a scorched-earth policy and they promise all this money without any revenue base. Then when we say that the trajectory is completely and utterly unsustainable, they accuse us of harsh cuts. That is when they did not have a funding base.