Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question—in fact I have a number of them. Does the minister also consider that state governments responsible for some of this mess should hang their heads in shame? But, before getting to that, I ask the minister to request information from the Minister for Education on the presence of local Indigenous preschool workers: is the government aware that they significantly increase attendance? Is the government aware that preschools serving 70 per cent of Indigenous children do not have a local Indigenous preschool worker, and will the government promise to fix this problem as well?