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

to which submissions are being made. The government has never said anything at any point other than that we are prepared to negotiate with the crossbenchers. As I have said many times on radio, on television and in this place, governments have controlled the Senate for three of the last 40 years. In other words, for 37 years they have had to negotiate with the crossbenchers in the Senate. I have made it perfectly clear that the CPI rate versus the 10-year government bond rate is one of the things that we are very open to negotiating with the crossbenchers.

Suddenly, the Labor Party have discovered that we are introducing a 10-year government bond rate for student debt. Where have you been, you troglodytes? What have you been doing?

Have you been studying closely the $6.6 billion of cuts that you delivered when you were in government?

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