Page 3169 - Week 10 - Thursday, 18 October 2007
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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, if you are responding to a position that Mr Barr may have expressed, of course it would be relevant.
MR SESELJA: Indeed.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just be careful.
MR SESELJA: Indeed I am, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I can see why Mr Barr is sensitive on his taxation position. I will finish on this before I move on to other matters. Not content with screwing first home buyers from pillar to post, Mr Barr now wants to tax the family home when they sell at a profit. We look forward to future taxation arrangements should this mob stay in government for much longer.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think you might need to be a bit more relevant than that, Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA: I will. I will come back to some of the education issues. Mr Gentleman spent a lot of time attacking the federal government’s position on education, but we heard nothing or very little, in fact, about Kevin Rudd’s plans for education. We know why. Kevin Rudd talks about an education revolution. Where did he get that from? In the words of Kevin Rudd: “When it comes to the issue of education policy, we take it from the West Wing.” They take their policies from US TV shows. It was a slogan coined in the West Wing that Mark Latham adopted, and now Kevin Rudd has taken it up. It is the education revolution. Mao Zedong’s revolution, in fact, was the context. I believe that Mr Barr likes some lines from the West Wing.
Members interjecting—
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Members on both sides, we are descending into chaos.
MR SESELJA: Indeed. It does need to be said, whether it is in respect of education or any other policy, that the federal opposition leader is a cardboard cut-out. He is a policy-free zone. He is a walking slogan. And this is the man that they would like to emulate! I would like to speak a little about the importance of a collaborative approach to education.
Mr Barr: You are four minutes into your speech and you have not talked about education.
MR SESELJA: I have. I have talked about an education revolution. Clearly, Mr Barr was not listening. He missed the part about the education revolution. The education revolution is the centrepiece of the federal Labor Party’s education policy. It is the Mao Zedong-West Wing take-off style. Mr Barr clearly has not been listening to Mr Rudd.
Members interjecting—
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