Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The thing about opposition, Madam Speaker, as you would well remember, is that you have to be nimble. You have to be capable of changing your tactics when circumstances change. The problem with the Labor Party is that they are still running the same tactic they were planning at this morning's 10 am questions meeting. The Manager of Opposition Business needs to understand that, when the circumstances change, a good general changes their tactics, as Ataturk once famously said.

Before question time the government made two important announcements. We removed from the higher education amendment bill the Commonwealth Grant Scheme reduction by 20 per cent. We have decided to put that in a different bill so that the government's vital deregulation agenda can stand on its own merits and be dealt with by the crossbench on its own merits this week.

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