Kirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The point is: we have a minister who comes up with these ideas and then cannot follow through on any of them. Behind the resources boom Australia is facing real challenges. We need an education minister who will take up these challenges and treat her important portfolio seriously. When it comes to our education system, Australians deserve more than glib headline-grabbing one-liners and cheap populist politics. We need real policy and real investment. We need a Labor government.

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