Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Deputy President. I don't need a lesson from Senator Farrell as to the destructive nature of what Labor has done to this country. There isn't an industry in this country that hasn't been destroyed by the Labor Party. It's interesting. They talk about casualisation and how wages are casual. I was just reading about how, under the 1983 Prices and Incomes Accord, casualisation went from single digits to up to 25 per cent—thanks to the Hawke-Keating government. And they've got the hide to come in here and talk about casualisation rates in this country. There isn't a thing the Hawke-Keating government didn't destroy. And the little bit that was left when the Rudd-Gillard government got in—what a mess they made with the boat people!

I'm not going to bother talking about this bill, because this bill is all about trying to get education back on track in this country.