Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The government has done no such thing. As the minister for education has made clear again and again in this parliament over the last few days, every year school education goes up and up. It goes up eight per cent this year, it goes up eight per cent next year, it goes up six per cent the year after that and it goes up four per cent in the final year of the forward estimates. It is true that the former Rudd-Gillard government made a whole lot of pie-in-the-sky promises that were never funded, that were never in the budget forward estimates and that could never be paid for. Going into the 2013 election, this government made it absolutely crystal clear that we supported the commitments that the former government had made for the then forward estimates only.

Mr Husic interjecting—

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