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

Our education investments are benefiting not just people in the school, TAFE and university systems. They are benefiting the communities that will use these school halls. They are benefiting employers, who will have access to a better skilled workforce. They are benefiting the industries that will draw on university research to help develop new products, new services and new processes. They are benefiting our colleagues on the opposition benches. They will come in here and they will try to mow down the government’s efforts to give Australians a better education, then they will have to go back to their own electorates, to their own communities, and have to try to claim credit for the government’s work. We have seen this again, this morning, with the government’s automotive legislation, where the opposition has been through all sorts of contortions and backflips. There have been more backflips than in Circus Oz.