“No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS”

—  Tony Abbott

Clarifying his election commitments in an interview with Anton Enus on SBS News and subsequently quoted in "Then and now: the Abbott government's broken promises" http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/then-and-now-the-abbott-governments-broken-promises-20140514-zrcfr.html Sydney Morning Herald, September 6, 2013.
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