George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Sterle, it is a shame. At the end of every question you ask, you always come back to trying to make—never successfully, I am sorry to say—a cheap political point. We are not interested in the insiders games. We are not interested in the political gossip. We are not interested in someone who has obviously watched way too many episodes of The West Wing in his life. What we are interested in is policy outcomes. If, for one moment, you and your Labor colleagues could interest yourselves in a policy, these are the features of a policy—a policy based upon the principle of need, a policy based upon the principle of equality, a policy based upon the principle of consistency of treatment. So, it does not matter where you go to school, right across Australia, by the end of this program, over a 10-year period, there will be precise equality of treatment— (Time expired)