00:00While it may be a change of scenery, Peter Dutton is keeping his focus on the marginal
00:07seats, this time at AgFest in the seat of Lyons.
00:12He was joined by Jeremy Rockleaf, the Tasmanian Premier and Liberal candidate Susie Bower.
00:22It's held by retiring Labor MP Brian Mitchell and now being contested by former state Labor
00:28leader Rebecca White.
00:30Now as the opposition leader steps into the final campaign push, he's dropped his vow
00:35to change the national school curriculum.
00:38Earlier in the campaign he suggested that students should be able to think freely without
00:43being indoctrinated.
00:44In March promising to rewrite the curriculum to cultivate critical thinking, responsible
00:49citizenship and common sense, but today has reversed that position.
00:54What we'll do is we'll work with parents to reflect what they want to see in the education
01:01system and that is a good education for their children and a coalition government.
01:06When we were last in government, despite what the Prime Minister has told you, the funding
01:09went from $13 billion to $25 billion a year, which is significant.
01:13So we'll continue to fund education at a record rate and we want our kids to get the best possible
01:18education.
01:19In the first week of the campaign Peter Dutton also dropped the coalition's unpopular work
01:30from home policy for public servants.
01:32So the opposition leader is continuing this pace in the last 48 hours of the election campaign.
01:39He did flag that he wanted to visit up to 28 key seats across the country in the last week
01:46of the campaign.
01:47We are currently at over a dozen of those, so certainly a lot more to do over the next 48
01:53hours.
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