Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

or $1.3 billion a year, next year. That is not a cut in health spending. In 2015-16, we see a further increase and it continues on over the forward estimates of this government's forward estimates budget. I say to Senator Bilyk, who was carrying on about how people on welfare could afford all these things, that the best form of assistance that we can give to those people that are unemployed is to give them a job.

The idea that big government and spending will get us out of this mess has proved over the last six years to be a complete and utter disaster. Big governments and governments spending their way out of an economic disaster zone are no way to correct the economy. The best way that we can help Australians to be better able to afford to pay this small, modest co-payment—