Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Jagajaga called for ‘incisive interventions into the sovereignty of capital.’ And this is the person that the Labor Party would put up as an alternative education minister. Labor is being entirely disingenuous on this issue, as with so many others. Members might not realise that it was in fact the Labor Party, when the current Leader of the Opposition was the minister for education, that called for a national curriculum and threatened states. They threatened to tie grants to a national curriculum in 1993. How extraordinary that the—

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