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| Budget reply speech: Bill Shorten says Labor will double Coalition's tax offset plan – politics live | Budget reply speech: Bill Shorten says Labor will double Coalition's tax offset plan – politics live |
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| Christopher Pyne has quickly sent something out: | |
| The first priority of a government is the safety and security of its people. | |
| For Bill Shorten, it did not rate a mention. | |
| Bill Shorten was part of a Labor government that was responsible for the massive destruction of manufacturing jobs causing the Valley of Death. | |
| To give confidence to our defence industry, Bill Shorten must commit Labor to the Turnbull government’s $200bn investment to boost our military capability while employing thousands of Australians for decades. | |
| Scott Morrison is keeping his reply pretty short (for now) | |
| Unbelievable Bill, but not in a good way #auspol | |
| Mathias Cormann is delivering his verdict on the speech. He says there was no mention of national security or defence and Labor has just proven it plans on going forward with its “high-taxing” agenda. He also mentions that Labor has not delivered a surplus since 1989, “when the Berlin wall” was still up. | |
| Bill Shorten’s dishonesty is really quite breathtaking. He was one of the strongest advocates of tax cuts for all business as it creates jobs and leads to higher wages. Now he keeps deliberately lying about them as he did about #MediScare #ShiftyBill #BudgetReply18 | |
| From Mike Bowers: | |
| Mathias Cormann has called a press conference for 8.30pm but it is the IPA which got in the first response: | |
| “Bill Shorten’s budget reply makes it clear that Australians will be getting higher taxes and more debt under either a Labor or Coalition government. The only difference is the Coalition would likely be marginally less economically destructive than Labor”, said Daniel Wild, research fellow with the free market thinktank. | |
| “Bill Shorten claims that tax cuts to businesses or workers is the equivalent to a hand-out. This is dishonest and misleading. When taxes are cut, the government is confiscating less money from hard-working Australians, not giving them a hand-out.“The top 10% of income taxpayers already pay 45% of all income tax. Labor’s proposal will increase this disparity.“Fairness is about rewarding people for hard work and encouraging upward economic mobility. That is why a single, flat income tax rate is the fairest income tax rate.“Business investment in Australia is just 12% of GDP, which is lower than during the Whitlam years. Australia’s high business tax rate must be cut to increase investment, job creation and wages. | |
| “The 2018-19 budget is the highest taxing, spending and debt budget in Australia’s history. Debt will reach a record $561bn, taxes a record $473bn and spending a record $484bn. | |
| “To differentiate itself from Labor, the government should immediately commit to even lower taxes, flatter rates, smaller government and a faster path to budget surpluses and repaying national debt. | |
| “Australians who want smaller government, lower taxes, less debt and reduced spending are not being listened to. We have complete bipartisanship when it comes to high taxes, spending and debt. | |
| “Neither Labor or the Coalition will reduce spending, which means neither party will reduce the debt or permanently reduce taxes. | |
| “IPA research has found that a modest 1% spending cut across every commonwealth department would save $263bn over four years and halve Australia’s gross debt. | |
| “The government’s budget included a record level of taxes, debt and spending. What is so worrying is that under a Shorten Labor government taxes, debt and spending would be even higher.” | |
| Question [After playing the Today show “rolled gold” clip]: We have seen this week that that was way off reality, you have lost four Labor MPs. The Coalition’s already running that clip on social media. | |
| Shorten: Sorry, I don’t quite agree when you said that was way off track. There are facts which we now know ... | |
| Question: Hang on, you said last year you had no problems at all, this week we have seen you had problems. | |
| Shorten: Yes, but what you also said is what I said was not right. The fact of the matter is that the best legal advice we had said that our people would survive what we thought to be the existing law. I’m very sorry that things have got to where they are, no question. I wish I could have pre-empted or guessed the decision of the high court. I know Australians don’t want to have to vote if they don’t have to. I’m sorry about that. The court did set a different standard and plenty of independent experts, maybe not the government ministers, but plenty of independent experts, maybe not Liberal ads on TV, but independent experts have made it clear. | |
| Question: If you look at the judgment, the high court makes it clear it is not a new interpretation, it is upholding its previously stated position, which is showing that you have taken reasonable steps to renounce your citizenship is not necessarily enough to meet the constitutional requirement? | |
| Shorten: In good faith, our lawyers and our legal team presented their arguments, that wasn’t our submission. The court didn’t agree with our submissions and they have made their decision. | |
| Question: Regardless of whether it was your lawyers’ advice, the reality is when we see what you assured Australians last year, you misled them? | |
| Shorten: I go on the best advice I can get and I’m sorry that things have got to where they have got. I understand people’s frustration and annoyance. I think that this section 44 has been quite a tricky section of the constitution. If I had known then what I know now, then of course we would have said something different. I didn’t. | |
| Question: Is this a model for how you will deal with mistakes as prime minister, you will say something misleading and blame others instead of copping it on the chin yourself? | |
| Shorten: No, if you are saying that someone has to be infallible to be prime minister, the last person to claim that died 2,000 years on a cross. I won’t say I will be infallible. | |
| Question: On your point about insecure employment, since budget night, a number of senators have raised concerns about the fact the government didn’t raise the Newstart allowance from $40 a day. Even John Howard said Newstart should be raised. Why is Labor hiding behind a review instead of saying we will do a $10 a week lift immediately and a review? | |
| Shorten: It’s a good question. The issue of Newstart is real. Unlike the government, I don’t pretend that it would be – that you could live on $40 a day. | |
| Question: Why haven’t you lifted it tonight then? | |
| Shorten: We are not the government. We need to review the payment system to work out what is adequate. But I certainly agree with a lot of the people who are saying it is an issue and you might, you probably didn’t notice in my speech I deliberately sent a message that jobseekers living in poverty is unacceptable. | |
| Question: You will offer an increase in Newstart before the election? | |
| Shorten: I’m not about to start spending billions of dollars on your show, even though I’m defending the ABC in another forum against your cuts. I do think it is an issue. What we are going to do is get the evidence and there is plenty there and look at what we can do and let’s be straight up, I like that John Howard says he cares about Newstart now. He had a chance for 12 years, didn’t he? | |
| Question: To come back to this point about fairness. On Australian on $200,000, they get four times as much income but they pay more than seven times as much tax. How is that fair? | |
| Shorten: First of all,you forget the person on 60,000 pays GST, you forget that this person’s also paying higher electricity bills. | |
| Question: But the person on 200,000 has an expensive electricity bill? | |
| Shorten: Someone on $60,000 is not saving a lot of money. This is not a competition about who has got a harder luck story. In government, you have to make choices. Mr Turnbull wants to reduce taxes for the top end, I want to do a better deal for ten million Australians. | |
| Question: You have announced an extra 100,000 Tafe positions for locals. Unemployment is at 5.6%. The Reserve Bank classifies 5% as full employment. How are you going to fill those positions when we are almost at full employment? | |
| Shorten: Nearly 9% of Australia are underemployed. When we talk about unemployment, that number only catches part of the picture. We’ve got 700,000 plus people on the disability support pension, very few get the chance to work. We’ve got job searches and seekers who have given up. We have 9% of people underemployed and we have 4 million Australians in casual or are part-time work. This idea that somehow everyone’s on Easy Street pulling down $200,000, that is not the real world. There is insecure employment and people need to retrain. There is a lot of people doing jobs that won’t exist in ten years. Tafe is the educational institute for older Australians to get that second chance and I can’t believe the cuts this government have made to Tafe. | |
| Question: Your plan wouldn’t benefit people who earn more than $120,000 a year. Let’s take the example of a teacher. You might be a teacher, a senior teacher, a head of department and a principal. You might hope that through your own hard work and some lucky opportunities that one day you might earn $120,000 a year. You said in your speech your plan is a fair go for everyone. Why is somebody in the position I have outlined not as worthy of a tax cut as a first-year teacher? | |
| Shorten: Your question presupposes we are not doing anything else for people. That principal also lives in a community where they want to have well-funded schools and well-funded hospitals. And the reality is there is only so much money you’ve got. I form the view and my Labor team forms the view that if we can look after 10 million taxpayers – and let’s be straight – what happened is I have almost doubled the tax cut offered by the government. This government said we, Labor, doesn’t support lower taxes. I’ve got the better offer for 10 million Australians. | |
| Question: I’m asking if you are saying it’s a fair go for everyone, it is not a fair go for high-income earners? | |
| Shorten: High-income earners need our support less than low-income earners. The fact of the matter is that if you are someone on a good salary, I’m not going to say $120,000 is an amazing salary, if you are someone on $1m, this government has reduced your taxes by $16,000. At the end of the day, you have to make choices. The deal I’m offering Australia is we will reduce the national debt more quickly because we are not giving a lot of money away to the top end of town. We will restore funding to schools, we will make sure hospitals and schools are properly funded. This is a clear choice. This government is saying to people we will give you $10 and forgive us our cuts and decisions, we are saying we will give you more but it is on the basis we can fund our other schools and hospitals and essential services. That is the difference. It is a priorities game. | |
| Question: On reducing debt and then getting the budget into balance, when would Labor return the budget to surplus? | |
| Shorten: Same year as the government. | Shorten: Same year as the government. |
| Question: So, 2020-21? | Question: So, 2020-21? |
| Shorten: The government said they will return it to 19-20, so will we. They said they would do it in 2019-20. So the same as the government. | |
| Question: If there is a blowout in that, would you expect to follow them, is this ... | |
| Shorten: What do you mean? | Shorten: What do you mean? |
| Question: Would that be the same – you would not stick to your projection then? | |
| Shorten: We have – we depend in part upon the government numbers, so if the government has got its numbers wrong, that is a challenge for all of us. Beyond that, we are making long-term reforms and that’s the difference. This government didn’t do anything other than keep their old cuts. What they are – they don’t have a plan, let’s face it. They are offering $10 and hope you ignore the cuts and everything is on the never-never. | |
| The full range of their much-vaunted personal income tax scheme will arrive in seven years. I don’t think Malcolm Turnbull will be around in seven years’ time. It’s a promise on the never-never. | |
| Bill Shorten starts his 7.30 interview by wishing Leigh Sales a happy birthday. | Bill Shorten starts his 7.30 interview by wishing Leigh Sales a happy birthday. |
| Question: Let me put to you the same question that I put to the treasurer the other night. Given that the nation has a high level of debt, and the budget is still in deficit, why is now the time to cut income tax? | |
| Shorten: Because we’ve made hard decisions on economic reform. I mean, the fact of the matter is even though we’ve had some criticism from some people, we’re going to wind back the overly generous dividend imputation rules where people who don’t pay income tax get an income tax refund. | |
| We’re going to close down income splitting and discretionary trusts to cap that at 30c and we will reform negative gearing as well. So what we’ve done is we’ve said that we want to reform the tax system and, as a result, we can deliver more money for what I think is a great trifecta for Australia. Restore the funding and the cuts, reverse the cuts in schools and hospitals, be able to provide a much more better income tax cut for people up to $120,000 and also be in a better position to reduce debt. We have made hard decisions and we’re not giving $80bn away to the big end of town. | |
| So, what can we [very quickly] take from that? | So, what can we [very quickly] take from that? |
| It’s certainly an election commitment. And it doesn’t come close to spending all the money Labor says it can save from its negative gearing and franking tax changes. Which means the opposition has a giant election war chest up its sleeve. | It’s certainly an election commitment. And it doesn’t come close to spending all the money Labor says it can save from its negative gearing and franking tax changes. Which means the opposition has a giant election war chest up its sleeve. |
| It’s very much a Labor budget – health, education, working-class battlers and taxing the top end of town. | |
| It is also quite targeted, I think. Labor knows who it wants to go after at the next election and they are zeroing in. | It is also quite targeted, I think. Labor knows who it wants to go after at the next election and they are zeroing in. |
| He finishes to applause from his side of the house and a standing ovation, with supporters in the gallery once again chanting “Bill, Bill, Bill”. | He finishes to applause from his side of the house and a standing ovation, with supporters in the gallery once again chanting “Bill, Bill, Bill”. |
| Shorten: | Shorten: |
| Labor can put real dollars into Australian infrastructure because we are not going to give $80bn to multinationals and big corporations. | Labor can put real dollars into Australian infrastructure because we are not going to give $80bn to multinationals and big corporations. |
| In conclusion, my fellow Australians, here is what the fair go means under a Labor government. | In conclusion, my fellow Australians, here is what the fair go means under a Labor government. |
| Rescuing hospitals and reinvesting in Medicare. | Rescuing hospitals and reinvesting in Medicare. |
| Proper funding for schools, Tafe and university. And a bigger, better income tax cut for tens of millions working Australians. | Proper funding for schools, Tafe and university. And a bigger, better income tax cut for tens of millions working Australians. |
| This is our plan and this is my challenge to the prime minister. | This is our plan and this is my challenge to the prime minister. |
| If you think that your budget is fair, if you think that your sneaky cuts can survive scrutiny, put it to the test. | If you think that your budget is fair, if you think that your sneaky cuts can survive scrutiny, put it to the test. |
| Put it to the test in Caboolture, put it to the test in Burnie, put it to the test in Fremantle and in Perth. I will put my better, fairer, bigger income tax cut against yours. I’ll put my plans to rescue hospitals and fund Medicare against your cuts. | Put it to the test in Caboolture, put it to the test in Burnie, put it to the test in Fremantle and in Perth. I will put my better, fairer, bigger income tax cut against yours. I’ll put my plans to rescue hospitals and fund Medicare against your cuts. |
| I’ll put my plans to properly fund schools against your cuts and I’ll put my plan to boost wages against your plan to cut penalty rates and I’ll put my plans for 100,000 Tafe places against your cuts to apprenticeships and training and I’ll fight for the ABC against your cuts. | I’ll put my plans to properly fund schools against your cuts and I’ll put my plan to boost wages against your plan to cut penalty rates and I’ll put my plans for 100,000 Tafe places against your cuts to apprenticeships and training and I’ll fight for the ABC against your cuts. |
| And house by house, street by street, suburb by suburb, my team and I will make this a referendum on your $80bn corporate tax giveaway to multinationals, big business and the big banks. | And house by house, street by street, suburb by suburb, my team and I will make this a referendum on your $80bn corporate tax giveaway to multinationals, big business and the big banks. |
| This nation needs a leader that gets it. It needs a party with a plan for the future. And it needs a government that will deliver a fair go for all Australians. | This nation needs a leader that gets it. It needs a party with a plan for the future. And it needs a government that will deliver a fair go for all Australians. |
| That is what we deliver. That is our promise. | That is what we deliver. That is our promise. |
| If I’m prime minister, tackling dementia and delivering better aged care will be a national priority, backed by real resources. | If I’m prime minister, tackling dementia and delivering better aged care will be a national priority, backed by real resources. |
| Because we know that giving older Australians the security and dignity they deserve matters more than an $80bn corporate tax cut. | Because we know that giving older Australians the security and dignity they deserve matters more than an $80bn corporate tax cut. |
| The same Liberal accounting trickery is a work in infrastructure. Across the four years of this budget, commonwealth investment in infrastructure projects actually falls. | The same Liberal accounting trickery is a work in infrastructure. Across the four years of this budget, commonwealth investment in infrastructure projects actually falls. |
| For the Western Sydney Rail Link there is only money for a study, a report. | For the Western Sydney Rail Link there is only money for a study, a report. |
| The same goes for the train – not a single dollar for construction, apparently this government can do it for free. | The same goes for the train – not a single dollar for construction, apparently this government can do it for free. |
| Only Labor believes in nation building. Good public transport projects, like the cross-river rail in Brisbane or the western Sydney rail line and when we invest in tourism infrastructure in northern Australia and as the [main highway] Tasmania and when we deliver long overdue upgrades to the Bruce highway in Queensland, when we fund and build these projects, we will prioritise Australian-made steel, we will prioritise local workers and we will require that one in every 10 people employed is an Australian apprentices. | Only Labor believes in nation building. Good public transport projects, like the cross-river rail in Brisbane or the western Sydney rail line and when we invest in tourism infrastructure in northern Australia and as the [main highway] Tasmania and when we deliver long overdue upgrades to the Bruce highway in Queensland, when we fund and build these projects, we will prioritise Australian-made steel, we will prioritise local workers and we will require that one in every 10 people employed is an Australian apprentices. |
| Shorten: | Shorten: |
| This budget falls hardest on the young and the old. The prime minister is still cutting $14 a fortnight from pensioners. | This budget falls hardest on the young and the old. The prime minister is still cutting $14 a fortnight from pensioners. |
| Still telling Australians to work until they are 70. With no idea what it means to people who have spent their lives doing jobs that are hard on their bodies and tough on their backs. | Still telling Australians to work until they are 70. With no idea what it means to people who have spent their lives doing jobs that are hard on their bodies and tough on their backs. |
| I actually think one of the sneakiest tricks in this year’s budget is the fraud its perpetrated on Australians in need of aged care. | I actually think one of the sneakiest tricks in this year’s budget is the fraud its perpetrated on Australians in need of aged care. |
| Around 105,000 older Australians are waiting for homecare packages. But despite all the hype, the government is offering only 14,000 places over the next four years. 14,000 places in four years. | Around 105,000 older Australians are waiting for homecare packages. But despite all the hype, the government is offering only 14,000 places over the next four years. 14,000 places in four years. |
| When 20,000 people join the waiting list in the last six months alone. But worst still in question time today we learnt there is no new funding here. They are simply taking the money away from residential care places and putting it in home care places. Nothing new. The people who raised us and cared for us and loved us deserve better than this money-go-round in aged care than cuts to their energy supplement and the world’s oldest retirement age. | When 20,000 people join the waiting list in the last six months alone. But worst still in question time today we learnt there is no new funding here. They are simply taking the money away from residential care places and putting it in home care places. Nothing new. The people who raised us and cared for us and loved us deserve better than this money-go-round in aged care than cuts to their energy supplement and the world’s oldest retirement age. |
| By 2032 over 200,000 people will miss out. Millions of families in our region want their child to go to an Australian university. | By 2032 over 200,000 people will miss out. Millions of families in our region want their child to go to an Australian university. |
| They understand what it means to hold a degree from our country. And the government’s freeze won’t affect them. | They understand what it means to hold a degree from our country. And the government’s freeze won’t affect them. |
| No, it will simply lockout working-class kids and students from regional Australia. | No, it will simply lockout working-class kids and students from regional Australia. |
| Tonight I am pleased to announce Labor will restore funding certainty to our universities. We will uncap places providing our nation with more than 200,000 university graduates. Under Labor a university education is not a privilege you inherit, it’s an opportunity you earn. | Tonight I am pleased to announce Labor will restore funding certainty to our universities. We will uncap places providing our nation with more than 200,000 university graduates. Under Labor a university education is not a privilege you inherit, it’s an opportunity you earn. |
| We will always choose better university opportunities over better tax breaks for the big end of town. | We will always choose better university opportunities over better tax breaks for the big end of town. |
| Labor’s plan for training is crystal clear. We will stop the slide to dodgy private providers and back public Tafe all the way. | Labor’s plan for training is crystal clear. We will stop the slide to dodgy private providers and back public Tafe all the way. |
| We will renovate the campuses and rebuild the workshops. We will ensure two out of every three as a minimum of our training dollars goes to public Tafe. | We will renovate the campuses and rebuild the workshops. We will ensure two out of every three as a minimum of our training dollars goes to public Tafe. |
| We will invest in programs to help older workers retrain in later life. We already know the expertise our nation will need in the next decade. More workers for the NDIS and in aged care. More construction workers for national infrastructure and housing,more programmers and technicians for the digital age. I don’t want Australia to meet these needs with skills visas. I want to train our people for these jobs. | We will invest in programs to help older workers retrain in later life. We already know the expertise our nation will need in the next decade. More workers for the NDIS and in aged care. More construction workers for national infrastructure and housing,more programmers and technicians for the digital age. I don’t want Australia to meet these needs with skills visas. I want to train our people for these jobs. |
| There is no excuse for a skills vacancy to last one day longer than it takes to train an Australian to do that job. | There is no excuse for a skills vacancy to last one day longer than it takes to train an Australian to do that job. |
| So tonight I am pleased to announce a Labor government will cover all upfront fees of 100,000 Tafe places in the high-priority sectors of agriculture and engineering and disability and plumbing. We would expect half of these to go to the women of Australia. We will get jobs like carpenters, cook and bricklayer off the skill shortage list. Instead of looking overseas, employers will have a skilled, local workforce ready to go. | So tonight I am pleased to announce a Labor government will cover all upfront fees of 100,000 Tafe places in the high-priority sectors of agriculture and engineering and disability and plumbing. We would expect half of these to go to the women of Australia. We will get jobs like carpenters, cook and bricklayer off the skill shortage list. Instead of looking overseas, employers will have a skilled, local workforce ready to go. |
| And we can make this happen because we put 100,000 Tafe places ahead of $80bn of corporate tax giveaways. | And we can make this happen because we put 100,000 Tafe places ahead of $80bn of corporate tax giveaways. |
| “The government’s cuts have hit public schools and their 2.5m students the hardest. | “The government’s cuts have hit public schools and their 2.5m students the hardest. |
| “It is public schools that benefit the most when we invest in and restore the extra $17 approximately over the next 10 years. | “It is public schools that benefit the most when we invest in and restore the extra $17 approximately over the next 10 years. |
| “It is our public system, teaching 82% of our poorest kids, 84% of Indigenous kids, 74% of the children with disabilities. | “It is our public system, teaching 82% of our poorest kids, 84% of Indigenous kids, 74% of the children with disabilities. |
| “We want the very best when it comes to schools. When it comes to schools at the next election the choice is simple: Labor will put back $17bn extra into the schools and the prime minister will put $17bn back into the banks. | “We want the very best when it comes to schools. When it comes to schools at the next election the choice is simple: Labor will put back $17bn extra into the schools and the prime minister will put $17bn back into the banks. |
| “Nine out of 10 new jobs created in the next four years will need either a university degree or a Tafe qualification. | “Nine out of 10 new jobs created in the next four years will need either a university degree or a Tafe qualification. |
| “It is why Labor believes in quality universities and strong public Tafes, working side by side, equal partners in our nation’s future. | “It is why Labor believes in quality universities and strong public Tafes, working side by side, equal partners in our nation’s future. |
| “Yet in this budget the Liberals are cutting more money from university and Tafe. | “Yet in this budget the Liberals are cutting more money from university and Tafe. |
| “In government Labor uncapped degree places and opened the doors of university to a new generation. | “In government Labor uncapped degree places and opened the doors of university to a new generation. |
| “Tens of thousands of students became the first person in their family to go to university. | “Tens of thousands of students became the first person in their family to go to university. |
| “That’s the fair go in action. But the Liberal freeze on university funding means 10,000 fewer places are available next year.” | “That’s the fair go in action. But the Liberal freeze on university funding means 10,000 fewer places are available next year.” |
| “Every budget should strive to deliver Australians a better deal today, but I understand so many of the sacrifices people make are about tomorrow. | “Every budget should strive to deliver Australians a better deal today, but I understand so many of the sacrifices people make are about tomorrow. |
| “About passing on a better set of opportunities for their children. But this budget does nothing for the next generation. | “About passing on a better set of opportunities for their children. But this budget does nothing for the next generation. |
| “It betrays it. Young Australians always get a dud deal from the conservative government. | “It betrays it. Young Australians always get a dud deal from the conservative government. |
| “Young people – they volunteer, they give back to our community, they work to support their studies, pay their GST, they’re funding Medicare, they contribute to super from their first day on the job. | “Young people – they volunteer, they give back to our community, they work to support their studies, pay their GST, they’re funding Medicare, they contribute to super from their first day on the job. |
| “Yet, in return, the Liberals are cutting school funding. Closing off university opportunities, taking us backwards on climate change, locking first-home buyers out of the market, making it harder to get an apprenticeship or Tafe. | “Yet, in return, the Liberals are cutting school funding. Closing off university opportunities, taking us backwards on climate change, locking first-home buyers out of the market, making it harder to get an apprenticeship or Tafe. |
| “Young Australians deserve better. So, tonight I promise young Australians Labor will create a level playing field for first-home buyers, because I don’t want us to live in a country where your only chance of owning a home is to inherit one. | “Young Australians deserve better. So, tonight I promise young Australians Labor will create a level playing field for first-home buyers, because I don’t want us to live in a country where your only chance of owning a home is to inherit one. |
| “We’re serious too about tackling climate change and helping the environment. 50% renewables by 2030. 45% cut in emissions by 2030, and zero net emissions by 2050. | “We’re serious too about tackling climate change and helping the environment. 50% renewables by 2030. 45% cut in emissions by 2030, and zero net emissions by 2050. |
| “I promise young Australians we will not leave you a ruined reef and rivers and oceans choked with waste and we will always invest in your education – schools, Tafe and uni – because we know that when you get the opportunities Australia gets the opportunity. | “I promise young Australians we will not leave you a ruined reef and rivers and oceans choked with waste and we will always invest in your education – schools, Tafe and uni – because we know that when you get the opportunities Australia gets the opportunity. |
| When you succeed Australia succeeds. | When you succeed Australia succeeds. |
| My twin brother Robert is here tonight. So, happy birthday for Saturday! | My twin brother Robert is here tonight. So, happy birthday for Saturday! |
| But he knows that our mother sacrificed everything for our education and it changed our lives. | But he knows that our mother sacrificed everything for our education and it changed our lives. |
| “If I’m elected Prime Minister, I will make it my mission to ensure every Australian child gets the life-changing opportunity of a properly funded, quality education. | “If I’m elected Prime Minister, I will make it my mission to ensure every Australian child gets the life-changing opportunity of a properly funded, quality education. |
| “Reading writing, maths and coding, science and languages, protecting from bullying, online or in the schoolyard. | “Reading writing, maths and coding, science and languages, protecting from bullying, online or in the schoolyard. |
| “I want children to discover and fall in love with what they are good at. I want every public school to be able to offer music and drama and sport and camps. | “I want children to discover and fall in love with what they are good at. I want every public school to be able to offer music and drama and sport and camps. |
| “This government can announce as many education reviews as they want. | “This government can announce as many education reviews as they want. |
| “Everyone knows the cutting school funding doesn’t deliver better results. That is why Labor will put back every dollar the Liberals have cut from schools.” | “Everyone knows the cutting school funding doesn’t deliver better results. That is why Labor will put back every dollar the Liberals have cut from schools.” |