Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The two items that were going to be addressed at the COAG meeting related to the education funding arrangements which are being pursued by the education ministers' council as well as the Council on Federal Financial Relations, who have advised the premiers, when I spoke to them directly about this, that these issues will be resolved in time for when that meeting would have been held anyway. So those issues do not require a special meeting of COAG in October. What we do require in October is a national drought summit to coordinate the entire national effort of not only the state and territory governments but the Commonwealth, the charitable sector, the farming sector, the meat producers—all of these groups coming together to focus on what is my priority. My priority is not to hold a bunch of meetings; my priority is to get things done. I suspect the now shadow Treasurer, when he was minister for immigration, had plenty of meetings about how he might want to stop the boats. He didn't stop one. He could have as many meetings as he liked and he achieved absolutely nothing. What I'm doing is focusing on the— (Time expired)

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