Senate debates Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Schooling Requirements) Bill 2008
In Committee
Rachel Siewert WA, Australian Greens
11:03 pm
I promise I will finish very shortly. These are trials of a particular technique intending to encourage increased school attendance. It is a punitive approach, a sanctions-based approach. Where are you comparing this approach to a positive approach? Are you, in fact, carrying out the same sorts of trials to measure the positive impacts, which we know actually work? We already know from looking at overseas examples that the punitive approach does not work. Where are you comparing like against like to measure what works best?
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