Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If Senator McEwen felt so passionately about investing in our schools, I am sure she would have opposed the Labor Party’s abolition of our program Investing in Our Schools, but of course at that stage the mantra was ‘reckless spending’, which I don’t think we hear from those opposite anymore. I have a number of questions to the minister. At 11 am I asked the minister whether there were any government amendments. He gave us a long talk about all sorts of things but did not answer the question. A few minutes later, we have before us government amendments.