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

If we want a fairer and smarter nation, we know that one of the surest ways to get us on that path is to invest in education, and that is what the debate in this parliament is about, that is what Gonski is about and that is what our plan for the future is about: investing in a national plan for school education so that the kids in our schools get good jobs in the future, not about cutting education to the bone like Mr Abbott wants to do.

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