Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Of course, bus services are public services, and one fully understands how the member for Brisbane—and, for that matter, the member for Ryan—would be intensely sensitive about the slashing of bus services across their side of Brisbane, given the enormous number of university students who rely on those services about whom ultimately, given the posture taken by the Liberal National Party government in Brisbane, they actually do not give a flying fig.

On the question of broader public services, we have the Cross River Rail; on top of that, the attack on public health services; on top of that, the privatisation of school playing fields by the Liberal National Party government, at my local school of Balmoral High and also at—

Ms Gambaro interjecting—

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