"We need to see real funding increases".
As prime minister, Abbott tied funding increases to inflation of 2.5%.
"We're going to be looking for funding increases that are more than incremental," he said.
Government workers and government programs got funding increases no matter how they did.
He restated his long list of proposals, like targeted tax cuts and major funding increases for education and health care.
The governor is calling for $3.5 billion less in funding increases for health care spending over the next 14 months.
Two existing programs that are expected to be given huge funding increases involve lasers carried by planes and satellites.
The Abbott government cut this agreement in its 2014 budget, meaning that promised 9% per year funding increases after July 2017 would fall to 4.5%.
And unlike you, I did not vote against funding increases for the troops that have come home with devastating physical and mental injuries".
But this misses the point that demand for services is rising rapidly and the NHS is managing with the lowest funding increases in its history," he said.
The sharp funding increases slated for the last two years of the Gonski schools funding changes – 2017 and 2018 – were scrapped in the 2014 budget.
