Page 1478 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 4 May 2016

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Question so resolved in the negative.

MS BURCH (Brindabella) (11.55): I move the amendment that has been circulated in my name:

Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:

“(1) notes that:

“(a) the former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott MP, promised in 2013 that there would be ‘no cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, and no cuts to the ABC or SBS’;

(b) in its 2014 Budget, the Abbott Government cut funding to education, health, concessions for pensioner concession card and seniors card holders, the ABC and SBS;

(c) the Turnbull Government has refused to reinstate the full amount of funding cut from education, health and concessions;

(d) the Commonwealth views repairing its budget as more important than funding health, education and important concessions for pensioners and seniors;

(e) the ACT Government has filled the shortfall in funding caused by the Commonwealth’s axing of the ‘National Partnership Agreement on Certain Concessions for Pensioner Concession Card and Seniors Card Holders’;

(f) the Commonwealth has shifted the responsibility for funding this concession directly back on to States and Territories; and

(g) the 2016-2017 Commonwealth Budget has imposed increased efficiency dividends on the Australian Public Service; and

(2) calls on the Government to:

(a) continue to provide support for low-income Canberrans, including through the ACT Concessions Program;

(b) continue to provide high quality health, education and community services for the Canberra community;

(d) condemn the increased efficiency dividends imposed on the Australian Public Service by the Federal Liberal Government in the 2016-2017 Commonwealth Budget; and

(e) continue to support the ACT economy in light of the impact caused by the ongoing cuts to the Australian Public Service.”.

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