Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for McEwen continues to interject, so I will continue, because there is more to this story. The school community had a meeting last week, and at that meeting they contemplated whether they had to reduce school hours. This is serious. Because the students are working and playing in such confined areas, the principal and the teachers gave parents the option of school finishing at three o’clock. What we are seeing under the BER program—such gross incompetence—is local communities having to contemplate reducing school hours. This is the wonderful, equal education opportunity that the government is presenting!

I have to remind the member for McEwen that this is the Prime Minister’s program. This is hers; this is her baby—yet we are still seeing problem after problem with it.

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