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

Can I say to the member who has raised this question that I will investigate two things—one being the issue of contact with my office. But can I say to the member that, during this parliamentary fortnight, the shadow minister for education asserted in here that I had not responded to an email from the member for Bradfield about going to one of his local schools—and of course when we looked at that matter that assertion was completely incorrect. And then on the issue of comparisons about building cost, I will certainly look at that matter too. But I would say to the member who has raised the question that, during the course of this parliamentary fortnight, once again, the shadow minister for education raised the question of per square metre building costs at Berridale in New South Wales—and when we checked, of course, the assertions that he made about those building costs were completely incorrect. Given that track record—

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