David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

You are bellyaching about 4.5 per cent of ABC cuts over five years when you took 10 per cent out of the Defence budget in just one year, which was more than $2½ billion—that is the sort of management that we came to expect from you. That is why the Australian people gave you a fair dinkum boot up the backside at the last election.