Roger Price (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last Thursday during question time, the Minister for Education, Science and Training claimed that I had complained about a lack of air conditioning in a school in my electorate and claimed that this was having an adverse effect on students’ health and their ability to concentrate. It is true that I wrote to the Prime Minister on 17 November 2004 to make representations on behalf of a group of students who had written to me from grades 5 and 6 in class S3M from Noumea Primary School. I did complain that, although there were details of how schools could apply for funding, this had not been released and an allocation had already been made for a school in the electorate of Greenway. My complaint was indirectly about pork-barrelling.

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