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

If you live long enough, you hear absolutely everything, don’t you? Now we have confirmed on the record in this parliament today the Liberal Party and the Australian Education Union in a cabal on education policy. Now I have heard everything. It would actually strike me as more strange if this cabal had not first come about regarding the My School website, where Australian parents in their millions—literally—got onto the My School website. Parents and the community were enthusiastic about getting this information. We on this side of the House, the government, are standing shoulder to shoulder with parents who want this information and, of course, facing—

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