Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

In relation to the funding envelope, the Labor Party promised $2.8 billion. We promise $2.8 billion as well. But the former minister for finance, who now sits here as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, was part and parcel of the tactic by the then Minister for Education, now Leader of the Opposition in the other place, who took $1.2 billion out of that funding envelope which we have replaced.