Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

It's nice to see how the students in the gallery are all smiling. They might even be from Durack. My electorate has some of the most remote schools and, more than that, some of the most disadvantaged students in the country. Only the coalition is going to put money in the right places, into the schools where the students need our support the most.

Let's talk about what the other side would do. They talk big about school money, but we can guarantee there would be special deals like there have been for those inner city schools in Melbourne and Sydney. You can guarantee that there would be no special deal for any child in my electorate, in the regional and remote areas of Australia. We're not going to sell out those kids—no way! We're going to make sure there are no backroom deals, so that our kids in remote and regional parts of Australia get the support they need. We know that those opposite cannot be trusted to deliver for Australia. They cannot be trusted to encourage and support businesses, whether big or small. We heard that today. The Leader of the Opposition can't even be trusted to consult his own party.

See this speech in context