Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

They are the ones that have cut public investment in higher education while the rest of the developed world has seen a very significant increase—a 38 per cent increase on average—because all of our competitors know just how important it is to have a skilled workforce, to make sure that their young people can get a university education or a trade. That way their countries will go forward. Ours will only go backwards. (Time expired)

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