Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government's failure to provide any detail today about indexation, co-contributions, the student resource standard and loadings for disadvantaged students. Prime Minister, isn't this panicked school deal just a con?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The only con was Labor's pre-election con to take $1.2 billion out of school funding. That was the con, on top of the $3.8 billion it had earlier taken out of education funding and the $1.6 billion that it had earlier taken out of hospital funding. That is the con, but that is what we expect from members opposite after their great carbon tax con before the 2010 election.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I quote a point of order which you made in the last term. On page 553 of the House of Representatives Practice it states, under the old paradigm, that it was irrelevant to compare policies of the opposition with those of the government. That is under the old paradigm. For it to be, under the new paradigm, a direct answer to the question—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the Manager of Opposition Business.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You were given more time, Madam Speaker.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If I did raise such a point of order, I am sure that I did it more accurately. There is no point of order. I call the Leader of the House.

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

Bad day, Tony! You are really missing Anthony Albanese!

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the House will resume his seat. Have you a second point of order?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do, on direct relevance.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

That is the same point. You can only have it once.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, you ruled earlier that unless we say direct relevance, it is not. On this occasion, I am saying it.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I am sorry, you did refer to 'direct paradigms'.

Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Why don't you check the tapes, like you did yesterday?

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, check the tapes, like yesterday.

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Which I did do. We will deal with that later—and you. I call the Leader of the House.

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

I think the pressure is showing a bit on the opposition. Madam Speaker, I ask you to ask the Deputy Leader of the Opposition—who used a most unparliamentarily word to describe the Prime Minister during his answer, which in the hubbub has been lost because of the exchanges since—to withdraw the statement she made, directed at the Prime Minister.

Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I withdraw, Madam Speaker.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

If I may conclude my answer: unlike members opposite, this government completely keeps its commitments.