Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable senator for his question. The Labor Party is very quick with these issues. It ran about three days ago, but I am happy to take it from the back of the QTB and put up with the hot issues again. I say to the honourable senator that this decision was made on the back of me as minister and the department to make some judgements about what expenditure we are going to put into various areas over the next four years. I think it is a pity that the shadow minister, who was talking about this being a $10 million program, is clearly not across his brief and clearly knows absolutely nothing about this and was actually talking about this in the context of a budget cut. Can I make it absolutely clear to the chamber that the budget for DVA this year is exactly the same as what the budget was in the first year of your—