Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The members opposite might call out and might moan about this package but the great truth is they voted against it. Had they been the government, none of these payments would have flowed—no payments to assist families with the costs of going back to school, none of these big investments for schools right around the country, no investments in trade training centres and no investments in the digital education revolution. This is a government that is not only delivering what it promised but is delivering an historic new investment in schools right around the country. Members on this side of the House are proud of it, members on that side of the House would prefer to see local schools go without new facilities and local tradespeople go without work.

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