Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

That depends, of course, on the amount of demand and the number of people that are going to supply them. But we said in our budget that we expect to have 700,000 in 2009, an additional 25,000 places, which makes it 400,000 more than ever existed under the Australian Labor Party.

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