Cuts, cuts, cuts key to Rudd script Should Kevin Rudd lose the September 7 election he could always try a career as an actor - because he learns his script well. In Perth for a whirlwind tour of marginal electorates Swan and Perth, the prime minister talked about cuts, cuts, cuts. He spoke at Perth train station on Friday about Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's plans to slash public transport. "We build the urban transport system up," he said of the federally funded Perth City Link project, which he had come to inspect. Mr Abbott basically says the only way to do the future is cut, cut, cut. It means cutting urban rail networks like this. Later at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Swan he repeated the mantra. Labor built infrastructure like the NBN but "there is a different script offered by our political opponents," he said. As we build for the future their response is to cut, cut and cut. Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey provided Mr Rudd with more material when he refused during an interview to rule out cuts to health and education. "The bottom line is to build on our investments on health and education," Mr Rudd told the media pack. Mr Abbott's treasury spokesman's guarantee is that he will cut health and education. However, there were some cuts Mr Rudd was not keen to talk about - his own company tax cuts for the Northern Territory. The prime minister was particularly reticent on his NT tax plan with his own colleagues, who admitted being left in the dark before Thursday's announcement. Employment Minister Bill Shorten only heard about the tax cuts when they were unveiled by Mr Rudd in Darwin. Resources Minister Gary Gray also told reporters he had not been told of the changes, part of Mr Rudd's larger policy to create a separate economic zone in northern Australia. Mr Rudd said Treasurer Chris Bowen and Finance Minister Penny Wong had worked on the northern Australia plan, as had the Labor leadership group. "We are proud of, as a government, of doing the right thing by the Northern Territory," he said. You would expect that during an election campaign, that when the final product of a policy is put out ministers are informed of it at that time. The Rudd production moves to Adelaide on Saturday, with cuts, cuts and more cuts certain to be in the script. He may even be armed with a clapboard and director's chair at his next campaign event.