Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

This initiative includes a $1 billion fund to build up to 500 science and language laboratories in secondary schools. This will increase our ability to create the technologies of the future and to participate in international collaborations. It complements the incentives this government has introduced to get more students to do maths and science at universities. Sir Robert Menzies is still remembered for building high-school science laboratories in the 1960s. Apparently, the Leader of the Opposition wants to be remembered for denying Australian children state-of-the-art laboratories. Apparently, he wants to be remembered as Malcolm the destroyer—the destroyer of jobs, homes, schools and businesses. It is little wonder that Peter Costello looks so cheerful today. (Time expired)