Peter Dutton then confirms that the policy the Coalition has now adopted is from the John Howard era:

The policy we’ve adopted is based on John Howard’s formula in government to try and find ways [to save money].

….. I want to get money into front-line services. To train the GPs so we have a replacement for an ageing workforce. I want to be a prime minister to restore the dream of home ownership and we are cutting migration by 25 per cent because we want young Australians to get into housing because I don’t want Australians to be locked out of housing. (There is no evidence that cutting migration will make housing more affordable. Just look at what happened to housing costs when the borders were shut during the covid lockdowns – they skyrocketed. And there was no migration then)

That’s what will happen under this Labor government. I want to deliver a first-class health system. We can only do that if we manage the economy well and afford to pay for those services. Labor and promised to fund everything and they will always spend more money than any other party except the Greens and together they will be a disaster for the economy and I want to make sure we get our country a contract which we can do through good economic management and helping Australians lift their standard of living.

As has been pointed out in a previous post, the 2013 policy to cut the public service by natural attrition did not include costings of the impact to service delivery.

And we know what happened under the almost decade of Coalition governments to service delivery. That is not research, that is experience.