Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Not only do you have the fact that the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, the shadow foreign minister, has such contempt for trade and Australia's international relations but you also have the fact that all you get from the Labor Party is petty politics. Indeed, on a day when Prime Minister Morrison and Mr Tehan, the new education minister, have announced a further increase to what is already a record investment in supporting Australian schools, does the Labor Party come in here and ask any questions about policy or investment in schools? No—of course, their questions are about petty personality politics and anonymous quotes from the newspapers. Our government is investing record sums into Australian schools. That record level of investment went up again today, providing more funding, more choice and more opportunity for Australian parents and more support for schools and Australian schoolchildren. (Time expired)