Andrew Broad (Mallee, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

people realise, because they are small business people and country people with high bulldust radars, that if you want to pay for something you have to put the money on the table first.

So I challenge the Australian Labor Party, as they talk about this and as they talk about their education package, that they will take the opportunity, over all this speaking that they have before them, to lay on the table exactly where the $22 billion is that they are going to commit into the future, how they are going to pay for it and what they are going to cut out of the current budget, or take out of the current budget, to show that they are going to deliver it. If they fail to do that, they are proving to the Australian people that they have wasted the last four years, that they have not used the opportunity of being in opposition to do their preparation work, to put their books together, and to say to the Australian people that they can trust the Treasury books in their hands. In contrast, we have a fully-funded package that delivers for the 23,062 students in the Mallee. Every one of the 119 schools will be better off, there will be more money, and they will be funded properly by this government.

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