Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly! I have the correspondence of the member for Parkes, who wrote to me about the circumstances of Gulgong High School. He wrote:

I am writing on behalf of Gulgong High School, who are in great need of further capital and maintenance works to school facilities.

I table that correspondence. What is he going to say to that local school? On the same day he wrote to me again, saying that he was writing on behalf of Moree Secondary College Student Representative Council, who had great concerns over the terrible state of a number of student facilities at the college’s Carol Avenue campus. I table that correspondence. What is he going to say to that local community?

Then I refer to correspondence I received from the member for La Trobe, who raised with me the circumstances of Sassafras Primary School. He wrote:

Minister, I have very strong concerns about the need for funding for upgrades to Sassafras Primary School.

What is he going to say to that local school? I table that correspondence.

On the question of the school communities of the member for Barker, which was raised in this parliament earlier today, I table for the House the list of 104 schools in the Barker electorate that are eligible to benefit from the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program of the government, a program he is opposed to.

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