Jamie Briggs (Mayo, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is. Hopefully it will add to the six mentions of ‘decisive’ so far in December. We had 156 in October and 111 in November. We had one in January. We were not decisive in January, but we were decisive in October and we were decisive in November. We have started strongly being decisive in December and this could be a ‘decisive’ day today—a decisive backdown. The other piece of information that has come to me overnight, interestingly, on the decisive-o-meter is the decisive-o-meter versus business confidence. You will see the comparison: decisive is up, business confidence is down.

I come back to the point, which is that the Deputy Prime Minister arrogantly refuses to accept the work of the member for Sturt, the work of the opposition, who stood up for independent schools on this and protected independent schools from the hit list. Because, make no mistake, the hit list is back—back with this minister, back with this Deputy Prime Minister. I commend the member for Sturt.

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