Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister promised the Australian people before the election:

What you will get under us are tax cuts without new taxes.

Will the Prime Minister repeat his promise now? If not, how can the Australian people trust anything this Prime Minister says?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

People will see in the budget tonight that this is a government which has kept its commitments. This is a government which has kept its commitments. That is what people will see in the budget tonight. The most fundamental commitment of all was to get the budget back under control—to end the debt and deficit disaster that members opposite left us. It ill becomes members opposite to keep talking about commitments when they are trying to stop us keeping the most fundamental commitment of all, the commitment to abolish the carbon tax and save the families of this country $550 every single year.

Mr Shorten interjecting—

If the Leader of the Opposition takes commitments seriously, what about allowing us to honour our commitment to end the carbon tax and to do the right thing by the people of Australia?