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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Carr. Is the minister aware that according to Australia’s leading construction cost survey, Rawlinsons construction handbook, a single-storey primary school building should cost between $1,300 and $1,400 per square metre to build? Is the minister also aware that in New South Wales a standard library delivered to hundreds of schools is costing $5,400 per square metre and that a standard canteen is costing $13,300 a square metre? How can the minister still maintain that the buildings imposed on schools under the Building the Education Revolution are good value for money?