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

I noticed that one of the interventions on the part of those opposite referred to ‘embarrassment’. Can I just say that what is singularly embarrassing for those opposite is to have to stand before their local communities and say that they voted against each one of these investments in their local schools. That is why they are embarrassed—except for the good old member for Canning, who yesterday in the parliament did a complete backflip with reverse pike and twist. So we have the Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart multipurpose hall and performing arts centre—to show that our program is directed to non-government schools as well—the St Francis of Assisi School; the St Catherine’s School; and the installation of wireless broadband at St Charles’ Catholic Primary School—a very nice school as well. Those opposite said that these questions have been posed to them in a manner inconsistent with the standing orders.

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