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

I thought that would get them going! We stand for an education revolution in terms of what we build in our schools—our primary schools, secondary schools, TAFEs and universities—and in our research. We believe in that because we need to equip this nation for the 21st century economy.

I said yesterday that when I said at the last election we needed to prepare for that day when the mining boom was over those opposite when they were in government scoffed and laughed. That was a little more than a year ago. Guess what? The mining boom is over. What they did for 12 years was turn their backs on developing the knowledge base of the economy to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. This seems to have escaped the attention of the member for skirt—

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