Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth) Share this | Hansard source

he might like to try and explain why it is in the member for Robertson's electorate and in his own electorate as well, that every bit of significant additional investment that has gone into the schools has come from this Labor government. They are the facts. That is what we are dealing with today. The member for Robertson can see the benefits in her electorate and she knows—as do I, as do members on this side—that, as we look at the way in which the New South Wales government is visiting savage cuts on education right across the state, those cuts will be felt in her electorate as well. Finally, for a shadow opposition minister who thinks it would be a good idea to sack one in seven teachers, the Liberal Party's commitment to education has never been better said.

Mr Pyne interjecting—

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