Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

In terms of the minister's comments in relation to fundamental flaws of this approach, unfortunately some of that is due to the fundamental flaws of his process. Some of those issues were addressed in our amendments relating to the schooling resourcing body, which, indeed, we are not pursuing now given that the Senate has already determined an alternative approach that we found inadequate for a range of reasons, as I have already said—not only its independence but also that it failed to specify a range of the roles that could occur under that body. As the Senate has already determined the other arrangements, we are not persisting with that group of amendments.