Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Sturt, the shadow minister for education, who is opposed to expenditure on schools, for the question. I will answer his question very specifically, and he might learn something about a $14 billion school modernisation program he is opposed to. From the very outset, as soon as passage of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan was secured through the parliament against the trenchant opposition of the Liberal Party, which does not want expenditure on Australian schools—

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