Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In the media release from the Association of Independent Schools, Dr Newcombe said:

What we don’t want is a situation where proposed amendments delay the bill until next year. This would be disastrous for many independent schools.

The political party in this parliament that is threatening the funding of independent schools is the Liberal Party. Under the Rudd Labor government’s digital education revolution, every independent school, every non-government school, every government school in this country will benefit through the program. The shadow minister should know that. What the shadow minister should do is stop playing politics and threatening funding for non-government schools from 1 January 2009.

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