Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

This government is the first government to seriously take the issue of how we get best bang for our buck from educational investment. Those opposite like to talk a lot about how much is spent, but the only plan we're aware of that they have is a plan to promise to spend more. They have a plan to promise to spend more, but they have no idea as to where that money would go, as to who they would give it to or as to how it would be used—they just have a promise to spend more. In addition to that promise to spend more, there is one other thing that we know: they have a promise to tax more as well.