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

And I thank those opposite for their chorus of abuse about supporting Australian education. Can I say to the shadow minister opposite: of course, he voted against the Building the Education Revolution program, but he might like to recall that it is supporting jobs today during a global recession, the biggest economic downturn in 75 years, whilst supporting over 24,000 projects in 9,500 schools around the country. Of course, we expect the Liberal Party, who voted against this here and then run around electorates, desperate to associate themselves with the individual projects—

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