Robert Oakeshott (Lyne, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Can I also put on record my support for this motion and the urgent need for a co-investment strategy from the Commonwealth and the states in education generally and in the pathways from secondary to vocational and tertiary education in Australia today. I am deeply concerned that agreements reached in this place two years ago around the $500 million regional round of the Education Investment Fund are being held back because of that lack of a co-investment strategy and because of significant cuts of over $1 billion by the three Eastern States in particular. I would hope we can get that co-investment strategy sometime soon and we can start to put a focus on the importance of education to the standard of living for Australia for the next 40 or 50 years among all governments in this country.

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