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

I notice that the member for Higgins regards such an investment as humorous. He regards as an object of ridicule the building of state-of-the-art science centres in secondary schools right across regional Australia, which are somewhat removed from the type of school he attended himself. Also with our investment in state-of-the-art science centres and language centres you will have a generation of kids looking back and saying, ‘These advances in our schools, these investments in modernising our schools, came off the back of a Labor government. It is prepared to get in there and have a go, investing in the infrastructure we need for the future while providing jobs, apprenticeships and support for apprentices here and now.’

This government has crafted a strategy for the future, which we believe is robust and strong. It is a nation-building plan for recovery, a nation-building plan for the future, as opposed to the cobbled-together ‘Hoover’ plan being advocated by those opposite, if ever they could possibly harness their act and get it together and coordinate a position, at least for a 30-minute stretch of time.

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