Julian Leeser (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We had that great film, Groundhog Day, with Bill Murray. That is Groundhog Day, the film. We have now had, I understand, Groundhog Day, the musical by Tim Minchin. Today we have seen 'groundhog day, the parliamentary motion' from the member for Sydney. We got a bit of a flavour of this from the assistant minister when she was talking about how little we have heard about vocational education from those opposite. By my count, in this parliament alone, the member for Sydney has moved six MPIs, two private members' motions, one censure motion and seven questions on notice about education funding. In the last parliament, the member for Adelaide moved 10 MPIs, asked nine questions on notice, and made speeches on one grievance debate, one 90-second statement and one adjournment debate all on the question of funding.

Nobody is saying that school funding is not important. But, absolutely, the most important issue in school education is school performance. We have a terrible situation where we are declining in our performance in literacy and numeracy. We are having no discussion from those opposite about performance quality or results.

Ms Husar interjecting—

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