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

New Directions has called for national literacy and numeracy testing for individualised learning plans. Australian Directions has endorsed universal access for early childhood education for Indigenous Australians. New Directions calls for a universal right to access early childhood education. What we see here is Labor taking other people’s policies, wrapping the ALP banner around them and calling it fresh thinking. Remember the early childhood policy taken straight from the COAG papers? Remember Labor’s national curriculum taken straight from the government’s policy? Remember the new retention rate policy announced in the budget in reply taken straight from noodle nation? Even the name of their so-called education policy—the education revolution—was taken straight from Mark Latham. The Labor Party are policy frauds. There is no fresh thinking and, what is worse, there is no conviction behind their thinking.

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