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

I was asked about the potential for ‘rip-offs’, as the member styled it, and I am answering that question. The guidelines are clear. The distribution to schools is clear under the Primary Schools for the 21st Century program, the National School Pride Program, that is correlated to school size. The science and language laboratory program is a competitive bid program. Different schools are under different systems, obviously—block grant authorities, states and territories taking a different approach to tendering arrangements—

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