Peter Slipper (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, in responding to the member for Sturt’s convincingly argued MPI on the topic ‘The failure of the government to deliver a real education revolution’, the Deputy Prime Minister, on page 78 of Hansard, said:

But let us just focus for a minute, as the shadow minister did, on the question of the Building the Education Revolution program. I would have to say that I do not think he has got the support of his backbench …

She then went on to quote me as indicating that in my electorate there had been certain funding measures. She actually read from a newsletter, and I quote again:

… ‘Recent funding announcements’. Here is a list of recent funding announcements, from Peter Slipper for Fisher.

Then, as the Deputy Prime Minister quite accurately pointed out, I quoted some of the assistance which had been given to various schools in the electorate of Fisher. I did, however, do so in a way that did not advocate the fact that the government has built up hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and—

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