Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I do—yet again by the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, who continues to make the statement that I want to dismiss one in seven teachers that work in schools. I point out to the House yet again—it must be the 20th time—that of course the federal government does not run any schools and does not employ any teachers, so the federal minister for education cannot dismiss any teachers, which makes the statement false.

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