Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

They conveniently claimed another 300,000 that had already been in schools before the program even began. They conducted one review—this ranks with the BER, the pink batts program, the cash for clunkers—more Labor messes—and yesterday in estimates the department answered a question about the evaluation with: 'The evaluation was taken under a set of KPIs, which were agreed with stakeholders. It was measured against things like the number of a resource made available, the amount of usage in the classroom and those sorts of things, but no direct line of sight measure against student outcomes'. So the Labor Party spent $2.4 billion of taxpayers' money delivering two-thirds of the laptops they claimed would be delivered, and at no point thought it might be a good idea to find out if it made one jot of difference to the outcomes for students, to the results for students.

Ms MacTiernan interjecting—

The member for Perth—no wonder she is shaking her head; she cannot believe it either!

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