Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I have to say that recently I was in the electorate of the honourable member for Dawson, up in Mackay, in Queensland, and went to a school. From memory, it was a Christian Brothers school; is that right? The grant was, from memory, one of three grants which had already been provided in that electorate for a couple of non-government schools and a government school. The response from the principals concerned was: ‘Thank God we’ve got some funding support to do this. Thank God we’ve got it.’ I would challenge those opposite—

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