Senate debates

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:14 pm

Photo of Katy GallagherKaty Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Real growth in health expenditure over the decade to 2016-17 was 4½ per cent. Given that, in order to pay for the $95 billion in tax cuts, the government must restrain health expenditure to just over 0.7 per cent per annum, what health spending will the government cut in order to fund its tax cuts in five years time?

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