Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

The schoolkids bonus is simply one measure we are taking to combat the educational divide in this country. Another is the government's major investment in technology for schools. In 2007—Senator Mason would recall this—Labor promised that we would provide enough computers in schools for every senior high school student in the country, and we are delivering on that promise. Education authorities across the country have installed more than 950,000 computers, exceeding the original target of 786,000 computers by the beginning of the current financial year. This is what the National Secondary School Computer Fund means to our kids: it is a guarantee that they will not be left behind. And the opposition have promised to rip it away. The opposition want to drag our kids back to the cave in which they dwell. This is a government that always look to the future, and we urge the opposition to change their— (Time expired)