Paul Neville (Hinkler, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Late last evening, in the debate on the Education Legislation Amendment Bill and the Schools Assistance Bill, the member for Moreton said:

It was interesting to hear the member for Hinkler outline how a school that he was connected with had deliberately targeted people with low socioeconomic status to artificially inflate the status for that school.

I did not say that I knew of a school that did that, I did not talk about anyone being deliberately targeted and I did not suggest that anyone artificially inflated their figures. In fact, what I said was this—I was talking about the SES:

That is a fair system. It is also an encouragement to some of the more affluent schools to take on a cross-section of less affluent kids by way of scholarships or reduced fees or whatever it might be. That enriches the profile of their school and it gives other kids the opportunity to go to good quality schools.

It was none of the things it was claimed to be.

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