Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

And he declares, in line with the new government’s approach, that he is wiser. That is good. He can make some remarks on that at another time. Roughly speaking, you had two or three high schools for one technical school, all in one community. We know that the bureaucrats are advising the government that this policy cannot work. We know that. We know that there is pressure to water this down and to try and get them to cluster in as many as they can. Those opposite should recognise that, whilst their policy was popular, this is not going to work in a practical sense. As I said, if they backflip, we will applaud. The shadow minister and I will applaud that.

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