Tim Hammond (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I am happy to talk about the fact that he created a Medicare privatisation task force, and I am very happy to talk about the fact that the Prime Minister has proposed and backed in $650 million of cuts to Medicare, which affects mums and dads and the community who desperately need pathology services the most.

You might ask yourself what it is that the Prime Minister has actually done in his first year of office on education. Let's look back at what the Prime Minister has done in relation to education in the last 12 months. He said this to Fran Kelly: 'you could make a very powerful case' to stop funding at a federal government level to government schools. But then he also said this:

No Coalition Federal Government, I suspect no Federal Government, would retreat from funding and continuing to support the non-government school sector …

What we can take away from all of that is that the Prime Minister has failed to deliver any single thing in relation to education in the last 12 months.

What about mums and dads? What has the Prime Minister delivered for mums and dads in the last 12 months? Well, he has not really concentrated on mums and dads. What he has done is deliver a $50 billion tax cut in relation to big business.

Mr Pasin interjecting—

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