Alan Tudge (Aston, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party are experts at peddling misinformation about coalition policies. We know that they say that we cut things, when we have actually increased the funding. We have heard them peddle misinformation about our industrial relations policies today; we have heard them peddle misinformation about the China Free Trade Agreement in a somewhat disgraceful and I would say almost racist manner; but perhaps the greatest peddling of misinformation that has been going on for 18 months is this scare campaign, which we are hearing again today, that the coalition wants to introduce $100,000 degrees. It is absolute misinformation that they are peddling. Worse than peddling a lie, they are spreading false hope to so many people. They are telling young people that they may no longer be able to afford a higher education degree because of the policies that will be introduced into Australia—that they will have to pay $100,000 up front to get a degree—when we know that is wrong.

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