Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Kim Carr, representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. The Prime Minister has announced a $1 billion national reading blitz to improve literacy for children in early primary school, pointing out that 75,000 students across all grades failed to meet minimum standards in NAPLAN tests last year and warning that, if there were no intervention, that could double by 2025. My question is: how is this funding to be rolled out and how does it relate to Gonski? Is this commitment separate from the $1 billion for 2013-14, which is all the government has indicated it will put towards the $6.5 billion needed annually to implement the Gonski review's recommendations?