House debates

Monday, 24 November 2008

Questions without Notice

Schools: Computers

2:38 pm

Photo of Christopher PyneChristopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the government’s failure to deliver a laptop computer to more than 10 per cent of government school students in the last year. The state of New South Wales cannot afford the second round of the program. The ACT and South Australia have stated that they are simply replacing old computers with new. Victoria is charging parents for the services and infrastructure associated with the program. Will the government at least commit to salvaging the computers in schools program by working with the states to appropriately fund the services and infrastructure that go with the computer hardware?

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