Labor campaign spokesperson and education minister Jason Clare was asked at an earlier press conference whether he has ever had a parent raise concerns about ‘woke’ with him (that is in reference to Peter Dutton saying that ‘many parents’ were concerned about school’s “woke” agendas)

Clare:

I tell you what, parents come up to me asking about, how are we going to make sure that our kids learn to read and write and count? How do we make sure that more kids finish high school? They don’t talk about indoctrination. This is straight out of the United States. This is a cut and paste from the United States. This is cut and paste.

Let’s be very, very clear about what’s going on here. But Peter Dutton talks about the curriculum — message to Peter Dutton, the curriculum is the Liberal Party’s curriculum. They signed this curriculum three years ago yesterday.

He talks like this curriculum was written by Adam Bandt. Wrong. I’m not interested in fake fights or talking about indoctrination. I’m making sure and I’m focused on making sure that our kids learn to read and write and count, that kids who fall behind catch up and keep up and finish high school.

The Liberal Party ripped the guts out of funding for public schools when they were last in office, $30 billion worth, and we’re still feeling the consequences of that today. This is personal for me. I’m a kid who grew up going to public school.

I know the kids who are suffering today as a result of the cuts that Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton made. As a result of those cuts, the number of kids finishing high school today in public schools is going backwards, from 83 per cent 10 years ago to 73 per cent today. We’ve got to turn that around. That funding is about fixing that. And I’m not interested in these fake fights about indoctrination. It’s not what mums and dads are talking to me about.