01-August-2010
Portfolio Media Releases, The Economy, Funding
The Coalition rejects Labor’s claim, and we stand by our costings.
Labor is clearly suffering from not having the Australian Public Service available to do all its intellectual work.
In fact it is Labor that has made the error – or is attempting to deceive the public.
Budget Paper No 3, page 51, Table 2.2.46 clearly shows the estimated payments to the states for this measure at $37.5m per year through to 2013-14.
Labor’s claim only serves to confirm that they are planning to cut to this measure from 1 July 2012.
The Coalition has announced over $24 billion of recurrent savings to fund our election commitments.
In contrast, Labor has only identified a handful of specific savings measures.
Labor has also failed to identify exactly where in the Budget it plans to get the money to pay for almost all of its promises.
Media Contact: Sam Fairlie-Cuningham 0438 285 780