Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues) Share this | Hansard source

So after Mark Latham’s discredited ‘schools hit list’ policy, what do Labor come up with this year? They are now taking their policy inspiration from Mark ‘Education Revolution’ Latham. Another one hits the dust.

Then we have the maths and science policy of Labor that has been proven not to work. Cutting HECS has been proven not to work. We have the architect of HECS, Bruce Chapman, coming out and saying it will not work. This is the architect employed by Labor to introduce the HECS system. He says Labor’s policy to cut HECS in maths and science will not work. And the unkindest cut of all: the Queensland Teachers Union says Labor’s policy will not work. So even their own side says it will not work. That was, until yesterday, the totality of Labor’s education policies. By yesterday they had run out of ideas so they started pinching somebody else’s homework. Labor on education gets an ‘F’ for ‘Fail’.

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