Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question again is to the Prime Minister. It refers to my earlier question where I asked the Prime Minister to confirm whether Budget Paper No. 1 disclosed that education spending as a proportion of total government expenditure will fall from 7.7 per cent in 2005-06 to 7.4 per cent in 2010-11. Prime Minister, I refer to your answer to my question where you said that it was based on the wrong premise because it failed to take into account the different treatment of Austudy back in the late nineties—which had nothing to do with my question at all. Prime Minister, will you in fact answer the question I asked you, which is a future comparison about your government’s commitment to education outlays, not the answer that you gave me before which is about the past.

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