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

The journalist asked the Leader of the Opposition:

You have committed and you still will commit to the next election for those years five and six?

These were the so-called Gonski spending measures.

On 31 March the Leader of the Opposition said, 'Yes.' He said:

We budgeted for this when we were in Government and furthermore, what does it cost Australia if we short change our kids?

That commitment did not seem to last very long did it, Leader of the Opposition—did it, Interest Bill? The Leader of the Opposition said, in an answer to a similar question at Moonee Ponds on 22 May:

We will reveal all our policies in good time before the next election …

And on 18 May, the shadow Treasurer said:

In terms of what we would do in office, well, we would look at the proposals, we would look at the state of funding of schools and hospitals that we inherit.

The hapless shadow minister, the member for Adelaide, in 158 words to the Christian schools conference on Monday just this week, the word 'yes' did not appear once in the answer.

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