Michael Ferguson (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

All it really is from the other side is grandstanding. The reality is that there has been no government in the history of Australia that has invested—I do not say ‘paid’; I say ‘invested’—more in education and vocational training. How has the Howard government been able to achieve great things like record spending and record investment in our primary schools, record investment in our high schools, record investment in a new initiative—the Australian Technical Colleges—and record investment in our higher education sector? How has this been achieved? It has been achieved because of the Howard government’s responsible economic management. I refer you again, Mr Deputy Speaker, to the editorial ‘A national disgrace’.

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