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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I understand that it is not necessarily new money, from the answer the minister has given. The Gonski review clearly identified that there is a significant impact of disadvantage on educational outcomes, particularly in relation to literacy and numeracy. In applying the funding for the reading blitz, to what extent will the government be seeking to ensure that it is the most disadvantaged students in the most disadvantaged schools, predominately government schools, who will receive this intervention and this assistance?