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

when people are talking about the impact of the global recession on our economy, when people are concerned about jobs, when we are talking about economic stimulus to support jobs today and when we are talking about an education revolution to overcome almost 12 years of Liberal neglect, that the high point of questioning from the Liberal Party and its supposed attack—the attack it has been working on all weekend and all week, its supposed hard hitting attack on me as minister and on the government generally—has come to a question of whether or not I have attended one individual school. I say to those opposite: if there is a former minister of the Howard government who can honestly walk to the despatch box and say that they responded to—and went—to every invitation that ever came into their office I would be very surprised.

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