Russell Broadbent (McMillan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Well, you can get a plumber down our way at the moment. You can get a lot of plumbers at the moment, and that is a huge change.

I am just making the point: if you are going to talk about education and you are going to talk about it seriously, why is it that the first thing that every government does, when it talks about an education crusade or these things, is start attacking teachers? It is the first thing it does. It says, 'Oh, blame the teachers!' I can tell you that the members that are sitting here in this room—and they come from right across Australia at the moment—know very, very, very good teachers. They know teachers that teach with a vision and with a heart and a passion for the people that they serve within their schools and their communities.

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