Don Randall (Canning, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Local Government) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, in writing, on 24 March 2011:

Since the inception of the Digital Education Revolution program, by electorate, how many (a) students are, or have been, eligible to receive a Commonwealth-funded computer, and (b) of the students in part (a) have received their computer as at 23 March 2011.)

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

The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

(a) The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations used information collected through a Preliminary Survey conducted in early 2008 to establish that approximately 780,000 computers would be required to achieve a one to one student to computer ratio in Years 9 to 12. Since the Preliminary Survey, there has been some movement in the number of computers required as a result of:

The total number of computers now required is 786,848. This figure has not been broken down by electorate.

(b) The list below outlines the total number of computers installed by electorate as at 31 March 2011.