Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

They were very happy to get the publicity back in the day but, in early 2013, the then shadow education minister described Labor's plan to properly fund schools as a 'conski' and said that they were never going to have a bar of it; they were not going to put a dollar into it. It was so unpopular with teachers and parents and other people who care about kids that, just a month before the 2013 election, they had to completely reverse themselves—completely back out. They had to say, 'not a dollar difference'. They had to say they were on a unity ticket with Labor on schools funding. In fact, they even paid for posters to be made for their electorates for election day.

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