House debates Questions without Notice

Building the Education Revolution Program

Monday, 24 May 2010 House of Representatives

Christopher Pyne

Christopher Pyne Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training

3:31 pm

My question is to the Minister for Education. Can the minister explain why, under the school hall program over which she has presided, a cubbyhouse canteen, like this one at the Orange Grove Public School, could cost taxpayers $25,000 per square metre yet not be able to fit a stove, but a canteen like this one at Holy Trinity Catholic School costs only $2½ thousand a square metre and even has space for coldrooms? Does the minister understand why people like Rick Bennett, P&C chair at Tottenham Central School, whose government-issue canteen cost $600,000 and cannot fit a fridge, could be absolutely, bloody gutted by the waste and mismanagement of the school hall rip-off program?

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