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

My question is to the Prime Minister and it follows the extraordinary answer given just now by the Minister for Education, Science and Training. I refer to the OECD report Education at a glance for 2007. Isn’t it the case that Australia has the third lowest proportion of public expenditure on education in the OECD, that Australia’s proportion of public expenditure on education is 14 per cent below the OECD average and that Australia’s proportion of public expenditure on education has declined by nearly six per cent since 1995? Why, after 11 years in office, is the government’s report card on education ‘fail, fail, fail’ and what plans will the Prime Minister now outline to the House to deal with his demonstrable failure on education policy?

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