Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

a greater investment in regional areas by decentralisation, by moving people out, who fights against this? It is the Australian Labor Party—any excuse at all just to keep them poor. That is how the Labor Party thinks.

So we are proud of the work that we are doing in education. We stand by the fact that we have greater funding, but we are not going to follow the dictums of the teachers federation of Australia. We will make sure we look after the needs and the aspirations of the students.

Ms Burney interjecting—

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