Kerry Bartlett (Macquarie, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will make a few brief comments. It is disappointing to come into this House and find the speaker listed to precede me repeating the factual inaccuracies that we hear from the other side so often. We heard the member for Shortland saying that this government has cut education spending. Quite the reverse: we have increased spending from 5.5 per cent of GDP to 5.8 per cent of GDP, an increased proportion of a rapidly increasing GDP. We have massively increased spending on education: in the tertiary education sector by 26 per cent in real terms; in higher education by seven per cent in real terms; and in school education by 160 per cent.

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