Mr ABBOTT (Warringah—Prime Minister) (14:07): He obviously had what he thought was a fantastic question-time strategy and he is incapable of adjusting it in the light of the facts as they stand. Mr Burke: Madam Speaker, on a point of order: the standing orders are clear that the Prime Minister should not debate the question, which is exactly what the Prime Minister is doing. The SPEAKER: I would remind the Manager of Opposition Business that the debate provisions provide two questions. Mr ABBOTT: The only people who have cut funding from education in this House are the members opposite. In last year's MYEFO— Mr Shorten interjecting— The SPEAKER: The honourable Leader of the Opposition will withdraw that remark. Mr Shorten: I withdraw. Mr ABBOTT: In last year's MYEFO they cut $3.8 billion out of education and in this year's PEFO— Ms Owens interjecting— Ms Macklin interjecting— Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER: Would the trio of voices, members for Parramatta, Jagajaga and Isaacs, please desist. An opposition member interjecting— The SPEAKER: As a matter of opinion. Mr ABBOTT: Members opposite cut $3.8 billion out of education in last year's MYEFO; they cut $1.6 billion out of public hospitals in last year's MYEFO and in the PEFO that we got before the election, no one— Opposition members interjecting— Mr ABBOTT: The Leader of the Opposition himself signed off on a $1.2 billion cut in school funding. Opposition members interjecting— Mr ABBOTT: I hear members opposite bellowing and carrying on. We had the shadow Treasurer and we had the member for Adelaide admit in the media, over the last couple of days, that that is exactly what the Leader of the Opposition did. He ripped $1.2 billion off the vulnerable school students and schools of Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory. We are putting it back. We are not just keeping our commitments, we are more than keeping our commitments.