Key quotes from Labor's budget reply

Quotes from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's budget reply speech and immediate responses to it.

QUOTES FROM BUDGET REPLY NIGHT:

"Labor is offering the Australian people a fully-funded Fair Go Action Plan." - Labor leader Bill Shorten

"Cancer is frightening, it's isolating, it's exhausting. And - all too often - it is impoverishing." - Shorten

"If we win the next election we will put back every single dollar the Liberals have cut from public schools and public hospitals." - Shorten

"Too often, when the worst happens, people still say: 'Why didn't she leave?' What we should ask is: 'Where would she go?" - Shorten on safe accommodation for women fleeing violence.

"When Bill Shorten was the Minister for Employment, he oversaw Australia's largest decline in the number of apprentices - 110,000 or 22 per cent in just one year (2012-13)." - Finance Minister Mathias Cormann

"Got excited when Bill Shorten mentioned climate change ... but then he said nothing about coal. If you don't have a plan for coal, you're not serious about climate change." - Greens MP Adam Bandt.


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