Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

as they have led so massively with their chins on this question, to go to 896 principals across the country and ask this question: would they like to send the cheque back? Or I would challenge them, in those electorates, to then stand up and say, ‘You and this community don’t deserve to have this extra funding for computers on the desks of your secondary school students.’

What we have here is a pathetic attempt by those opposite to camouflage one thing: 12 years of inaction and a failure to use the resources which came into the country’s economy, into the public coffers of Australia, through the resources boom and to invest that in Australia’s long-term education and infrastructure needs. We are proud of our commitment on computers in schools. We are proud of our commitment to bring about a digital revolution in Australia’s schools. We are proud of our commitments for a reform program for quality education. We have an agenda for the future. You have an excuse for the past.

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