Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Abbott government is a government of cuts and broken promises. It is a government that says one thing before the election and then does another thing after the election. Before the election, it was 'no cuts to health'. What have we seen? There is $15 billion slashed from hospitals. In anybody's imagination, that is a cut. There has been cuts to hospitals in the Hunter and cuts to hospitals on the Central Coast. I see the member for Paterson sitting opposite and I am sure he is devastated by the cuts that are being wreaked upon his electorate.

They said, 'No cuts to education.' But each and every day we hear about the cuts to education. $30 billion has been slashed from schools. Yesterday, we had TAFE visitors here in the House and we heard about this government's cuts to TAFE. They said, 'No changes and no cuts to pensions.' This week proves that the Abbott government cannot be trusted when it comes to pensions. It proves that the Abbott government says one thing before the election and does another thing after it.

Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As my colleague next to me says, 'Why does the Abbott government hate pensioners?' Pensioners know that they are in your sights, they know that you have targeted all cuts towards them and they know that this government does not care about pensioners. (Time expired)