Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I will seek advice from the education department officials as to precisely the amounts of money that have been spent in those specific schools from the Commonwealth appropriations. But again I would ask the Liberal Party: can you please tell the parents of students at those schools how much money you are going to take off them, what services you are going to take away from them, what levels of disadvantage you are prepared to accept as a legitimate part of the way this country operates. Because that is the view that Senator Joyce is trying to put to the people of this country—that education can be cut to finance your crazy, wide-eyed schemes.