Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister, for that response in saying that your view is an old-fashioned view that children should go to school every day. But we are also talking about cultural appropriateness here. The government has cut funding for maintenance of Indigenous languages and cultural context in schools. So, if it is not taught in the schools that they attend, how are Aboriginal students able to enhance their cultural experience in the absence of language teaching in their own language?