House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Monday, 23 June 2014 House of Representatives

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

2:32 pm

I can confirm that we will keep the commitments that we made before the election and one of the commitments that we made was that we were scrapping the schoolkids bonus, because the schoolkids bonus is a cash splash with borrowed money. That is the problem. Members opposite think that you can keep spending money this country does not have and has to borrow, running up ruinous bills for our children and grandchildren to pay. We are not ripping off our children and our grandchildren. We are not mortgaging this country's future to sustain present spending. We are not. We are being absolutely responsible—

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