Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth) Share this | Hansard source

We should be under no illusions, nor should anyone listening be under any illusions, as to what is at stake. The question really is whether or not we will have a National Plan for School Improvement which will provide that additional investment to the school the member refers to, and every other school, or whether we have from the member opposite, who put the question to me, and the Leader of the Opposition 'A Non-Plan for School Improvement' which would see us continuing with a broken funding model and less investment going to schools around this country.

We are at a very interesting point in the future of the National Plan for School Improvement. The Premier of New South Wales recognises how important it is and he has chosen to sign up. The Chief Minister of the ACT recognised how important it is and she has chosen to sign up. I look forward to premiers from other states recognising how important it is and signing up and for the school in question and every other school to have the certainty of additional investment over time—over the period of six years—with the National Plan for School Improvement which is supported by additional investment for every school to lift the performance—

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