Tony Abbott on budget cuts during his time as PM

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott visited Burnie on April 30. He spoke with The Advocate's Sean Ford.

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00:00Okay, if we're talking about truth in politics, weren't you the opposition leader who became Prime Minister

00:05after saying there'll be no cuts to this, no cuts to that, no cuts to something else, and that all changed after the election?

00:12Not true. This is an urban myth, if I may say so, Sean.

00:19I said during the election campaign that the Gillard government's commitments to schools and hospitals

00:29under Gonski and other things, we would support for the then forward estimates, and in the 2014 budget

00:36what was beyond the then forward estimates came into the budget, and so there was a slower rate of growth

00:45in the final out year, but there were no cuts to health or education in the 2014 budget, simple as that.