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

What the people of Western Sydney know is that Mr Abbott will slash and burn health jobs, education, nurses and teachers. The people of Western Sydney know because this is what Mr Abbott has said in respect of the state cuts:

… I think it’s important that the state premiers do the job they were elected to do and that was to put their fiscal house in order and I respect the job that they’re doing.

How much respect are the people of Western Sydney going to get when those opposite start slashing and burning to cut a $70 billion black hole? They will be faced with the same arrogance and indifference—