Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Cash for her question. I do not accept the proposition that the senator has advanced today. The simple facts of life are that the Rudd Labor government has been working in partnership with the Carpenter government to deliver an education revolution for Western Australians. The Australian government is working with the Western Australian government to deliver world-class school facilities for 350,000 students studying in both government and non-government schools. The Rudd Labor government has committed $284 million over the next decade to build state-of-the-art trade training centres to service Western Australia’s 335 secondary schools. Fifteen Western Australian schools are amongst the 96 schools nationally who have successfully obtained trade training centre funding in the first round of the program.