House debates Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2007

Second Reading

Wednesday, 21 March 2007 House of Representatives

Sharon Bird

Sharon Bird Cunningham, Australian Labor Party

9:52 am

As previous speakers have indicated, the opposition will support the passage of the Schools Assistance (Learning Together—Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2007. However, the opposition has moved a second reading amendment which is critical of the government for making a sneaky change to the 2007 guidelines of the Investing in Our Schools Program. Before I commence with my comments on my own area, I would like to take up some of the issues the member for Moreton raised. I am very pleased to see that the member for Moreton is endorsing the decrease in the federal education bureaucrats’ pay. I look forward to the cost-cutting measures announced. Those federal bureaucrats will obviously not be having cars—

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