Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. They would love to see the signs come down because they would love to see the infrastructure stopped. In their 12 years in government they neglected schools, they neglected education. We were the only country in the OECD where education funding actually went backwards. This was the Howard government’s commitment to education.