House debates
Monday, 19 June 2017
Questions without Notice
Schools
2:16 pm
Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source
Ha-ha! This is like the court of a renaissance pope. There are excommunications going left, right and centre. David Gonski is thrown to the wall. Ken Boston—out he goes. Who will be purged next? Actually, I correct: it is more like the politburo. All of the heroes of yesterday are being excommunicated by the Labor Party today. At the risk of quoting a heretic, let me quote what Ken Boston said:
Five years after the release and subsequent emasculation of the Gonski Report—
That was by Labor—
Australia has a rare second chance … The progressive elements in Australian education need to recognise that their argument has been won.
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It will be a tragedy if the school funding bill is voted down in the Senate.
That was Ken Boston, author of Gonski.
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