Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

That question demonstrates the hollowness at the heart of those opposite, because what Mr Abbott is proposing for people in Western Sydney is cuts. He wants to scrap and cut the schoolkids bonus. He wants to slash funding to schools and rip up the NBN. People in Western Sydney are already feeling the pressure from the savage cuts inflicted by the O'Farrell Liberal government on schools and hospitals.

There will be more to come if Mr Abbott becomes the Prime Minister of this country, because cutting services is what Liberals do—it is in their DNA. They will cut health, they will cut education, they will take away nurses, they will take away hospital beds and they will take away teachers. That is what those opposite are committed to. The Labor Gillard government are delivering for Western Sydney. We are rolling out— (Time expired)