Last week, former Howard cabinet minister Nick Minchin spoke out against Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme, describing it as ‘indefensible’. The next day WA’s Liberal Premier Colin Barnett let his displeasure with the plan be known. And only a few weeks earlier, NSW Liberal Premier Barry O’Farrell ignored Abbott’s antipathy to Gonski by signing his Liberal state up to it.
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