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

The member for Sydney raised the proposals that were previously put forward by the Labor Party. The member for Sydney, at the last election and at previous elections, maintained an untruth about the government's policies when it comes to education funding. Our education funding is at record levels. The reason we can fund our schools at record levels is that we know how to manage money. The reason no-one can believe anything the Labor Party say about schools funding, about hospitals funding or about funding for disabilities is that they know Labor cannot manage money. That means they cannot keep any promise they make when it comes to the commitments they make on schools, hospitals, disability services, aged care or any of this—because the Australian public know that the Labor Party cannot manage money. That was true under the former Leader of the Opposition and it's even more true under this Leader of the Opposition, who hasn't sat around and put a budget together. Not once in all of his years in government did he sit on an ERC that led to a budget. Not once—

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