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

A one per cent efficiency dividend should not be beyond the wit of any manager of an enterprise to be able to achieve without cutting the services or programs. We say that you can make those savings in the back office operations. Indeed, one of our tasks as a government—and I remind honourable senators on that side that they still do not get it. After having delivered the biggest legacy of deficit and debt that this country has ever seen, they still do not get that every single dollar that a government spends first has to be taken out of the pockets of one of our fellow Australians. When the Labor Party say that they do not want efficiency dividends, they are saying that they do not want the ABC—