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

I think, Senator Minchin, it does because the whole issue here, Senator Heffernan, as you would appreciate, is that the Rudd Labor government has invested $63.7 billion in school education in the last three years compared to $33 billion that the Liberals invested in the previous three years while they were in government. This government has almost doubled the funding for schools.