Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

to receive the praise of Brian Schmidt today, the Nobel laureate who the Labor Party only yesterday were quoting. Now, apparently, they do not want to touch him with a barge pole. Now they do not want anything to do with him. Oh, they have gone very quiet, Madam Speaker. They always do when they have been caught out. Yesterday Brian Schmidt the Nobel laureate was worth quoting; today they want to run away from him. Brian Schmidt today has indicated that he absolutely supports the government's decision on NCRIS, and he also said, to his great credit, that he supported the government's higher education reforms, because the current system is broken. Unlike the irresponsible members of the opposition, we are getting on with the job of fixing Labor's problems, for which the Australian public will be grateful at the next election.

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