Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

That was not good, but it was better than Senator Carr. Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. As admitted in the recent budget estimates, why has the government failed to estimate the costs of and budget for all the additional and ongoing infrastructure costs for computers, such as rewiring schools to ensure adequate electrical infrastructure to power computers, additional air conditioning, networking the computers within a school, insurance, repair and maintenance, technical support, software upgrades, replacing stolen and damaged units and so on?