Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The minister for schools has again today repeated the falsehood that I have claimed I would want to sack one in seven schoolteachers. I would point out that that is an utterly false statement. Because the Commonwealth does not employ schoolteachers, I have never said any such thing. In fact, the minister for schools is a fantabulist on that subject. Secondly, the minister for schools suggested that I want to preside over cuts to the education portfolio. That is entirely false. In fact, the coalition is the only party with a promise to increase funding to all schools across Australia. It is the government that has $3.9 billion of education cuts in MYEFO.

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