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Tony Abbott denies breaking promise on ABC, SBS.

"We never promised special treatment for the ABC or the SBS," Tony Abbott tells Parliament.

In Federal Parliament today Tony Abbott denied breaking a promise not to cut funding to the ABC and SBS, made prior to the election.

“This a government which has fundamentally kept faith, has fundamentally kept faith with the Australian people,” Tony Abbott said today.

“We are doing what the people elected us to do, to deliver the policies, to make the tough decisions that this country needed.

“Members opposite thought that the ABC was the one institution that shouldn’t be subject to an efficiency dividend. We think it should be subject to the efficiency dividend. The ABC should not be exempted from the kind of measures that are being applied to almost every other part of government,” he said.

“We never promised special treatment for the ABC or the SBS… I should point out to the member who asked the question that before the election the Treasurer, then the shadow treasurer, said very publicly of the ABC, ‘If there is waste we will cut it.'”

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten moved a censure motion the Prime Minister for breaking his promise.

Source: Fairfax

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