Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

And good on you; it is your right to do that. But I would like to highlight to the opposition that Western Australian students are younger than students across the rest of the country, and that is a reason for some of the discrepancies in the results. What is more, Western Australia makes a significant investment in early years education and has introduced an important Getting it Right literacy and numeracy strategy for students who are falling below benchmarks. We also have a policy in Western Australia where 50 per cent of class time is spent on reading and maths. Question time today has simply demonstrated what poor public policy practitioners the opposition were while in government and that they remain deluded while in opposition.