Australian labor is from the same mould as the US democrats/Clintons: Pathological liars.
There were no cuts to health, there were no cuts to education, changing the back-room for medicare payments is not privatising it, Howard was never going to reintroduce work-choices, Thomson misled parliament, Gillard had "full confidence" in him, O'Beid scammed millions etc etc.
And you worry about a few mill out of the bloated ABC budget and call a good man a habitual liar.