Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Similar questions have been asked of my colleague Senator Arbib on this matter. He has challenged those opposite—and I repeat that challenge to you, Senator Barnett—to name one of those schools that you would take that funding off. Name just one. Do not come in here and vote against it and then, after you and your colleagues have been wandering around the country turning up for the photo opportunities, come back in here and bag the program. You can tell all those tradies who have spent the last six or 12 months building these school halls that they did not deserve a job because we made the wrong economic call.