Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The government is acting to implement all of the measures across the Quality schools, quality outcomes document. We have circulated it to key stakeholders, particularly principals and school leadership groups. We have formally presented it to state and territory ministers, seeking their feedback in terms of the implementation of these measures. We have had positive feedback from organisations such as dyslexia representatives and speech pathologist associations, and from experts such as Associate Professor Kay Margetts, from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.

We are working to make sure we get this measure right because it can make a real difference to learning outcomes for Australian schoolchildren. It can help to ensure that our record investments in Australian schools are used to make the best possible difference. It can build reading skills—and I trust that everybody in this chamber would agree that little can be more important than ensuring Australian schoolchildren learn to read effectively in their earliest years, providing an effective foundation stone for all of their educational experience.