House debates

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Questions without Notice

Education

2:59 pm

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

in the national curriculum. He seems to be let down once again. We saw on budget night, of course, that we had a $353 million proposal that became $45 million the next morning and $1.4 billion the next afternoon, when it really cost $2.25 billion. We also got a $3.5 million coding across the curriculum program to support teachers to promote coding in the curriculum. So, let me suggest to the Leader of the Opposition that rather than focus on his zingers he start focusing on the detail, that rather than thinking of lines like, 'I don't know what she said but I agree with it already' or 'The future is happening now' or 'Everybody is somebody' or, my favourite, 'If you don't know where you're going any road will get you there'—rather than focusing on these brilliant lines—he might actually do the homework that he expects of our students around Australian schools and get his facts right.

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