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

The member would be aware that there is nothing dearer to my heart than making sure we have the best schools in this nation and that I am very concerned that, as a result of a decade of neglect by the Howard government, in international testing we are seeing ourselves starting to slip behind the standards of the world.

Mr Simpkins interjecting—

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