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

to the New South Wales Teachers Federation and their credibility as a source of advice. I would note also that the New South Wales Teachers Federation, together with the Liberal Party of New South Wales, stand in the face of the reform of the Australian education system, with their total opposition to the publication of school based performance, through their actions in the New South Wales parliament.

Yet today what we have is the federal Liberal Party linking themselves with the Liberal Party in New South Wales, with the Greens, with the New South Wales Teachers Federation—and let’s never forget the Shooters Party—in order to stand in the way of fundamental reform to education in Australia. I would say to the Leader of the Opposition, if he has real evidence of fraud in the system, what he should do is refer—

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