Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues) Share this | Hansard source

are complaining to the coalition about funding for state government schools. The member for Charlton wrote to us about sports facilities in a government school in her electorate. She said:

The current facilities are inadequate, impractical and unsafe ...

This is in a state government school. So under round 1 of the Investing in Our Schools program the Howard government provided the $50,000. The member for Chifley wrote to us about a lack of air conditioning in a school in his electorate, a state government school. He said:

This is having an adverse effect on students’ health and their ability to concentrate.

He goes on:

The students inform me they suffer headaches, dehydration, nosebleeds as a result of the school’s lack of airconditioning.

This is in a state government school. Did he write to the state government? No, he wrote to the Howard government, and we funded it under round 2—$118,000.

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