Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member understands very well that the jobs of his constituents depend on businesses having the confidence to invest and to employ. He understands that, as do all of our colleagues on this side of the House. I think some of the Labor side understand it too, but they're being dragged off to the left by the Leader of the Opposition. Off he goes with Ged Kearney, seeking to win the by-election in Batman.

Everything depends on a strong economy: our ability to pay for health, our ability to guarantee Medicare and our ability to deliver, for the first time, national, consistent, needs based school funding—a massive increase in school funding and, for the first time, consistent so that a school with the same needs in one part of the country will get the same funding as a school in another.

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