Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, of course I should not have used that phrase to describe the Leader of the Opposition, because it was $1.2 billion, not just $1 billion, that he ripped out of school funding. We will change the Australian Education Act passed by the former government to end the Canberra command and control system that was put in place by members opposite.

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