Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I thank my friend the sensational member for Robertson for his question. There are more than 300,000 teachers right across the country, and a teacher on, say, 80 grand a year will get a tax cut of $1,679 next week. That's double what they would have got under the Liberals. That's how you deliver real cost-of-living relief, not by jacking up power prices with expensive nuclear reactors. And that's just one example of the difference a Labor government makes. Here are a few more.

Under the Liberals, childcare out-of-pocket costs went through the roof; under us, they've gone down. They ripped billions of dollars out of public schools; we are putting billions of dollars back in. Under them, attendance at school went down; under us, it's coming back up. Under them, the number of people studying teaching at university went down; under us, it's coming back up. Under them, TAFE was neglected and sidelined; under us, 350,000 Australians have now got access to those important fee-free TAFE courses. And under them—

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