House debates Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Schools Assistance Bill 2008

Second Reading

Tuesday, 21 October 2008 House of Representatives

Jon Sullivan

Jon Sullivan Longman, Australian Labor Party

6:44 pm

I rise very proudly to support these two government bills: the Schools Assistance Bill 2008 and the Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008. These are both fine bills which, as the previous member speaking in this debate said, go a long way towards delivering on our election commitments. The debate on these bills has been quite lengthy and there have been a number of eloquent speeches made. I probably will not be troubling the timekeeper too much this evening. For those who might turn to my speech to read it, I commend to them the eloquent contribution of the member for Port Adelaide, Mr Butler, who spoke yesterday I believe. It is quite serendipitous that I should follow the member for Shortland in this debate as she and I attended the same primary school at the same time, which is almost the Nambour State High School example again except that Nambour State High School seems—

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