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

Obviously, what we never see on display from the shadow minister is intelligence or policy other than cutbacks. But, in conclusion, there are some members of the opposition who are so exhausted from turning up at all of their Building the Education Revolution openings—to try and associate themselves with a program that they have opposed in this place—that some of them, like the member for Gilmore, actually send a staff member to the sod-turning because it is all just too much for them to get to every opening. That is the real picture from the opposition on Building the Education Revolution.

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