Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite just interjected something about state schools. It is a Catholic school. The principal said, ‘What we really need in this school is an assembly hall in order to bring the kids together.’ In the stinking hot days in which the kids went back to primary school last week, and in the depths of winter here in this part of Australia, it is pretty hard to bring the school together in a single place. So what that principal said to me—and I imagine he will resolve this with the Catholic education authority—is that he wants to see projects like that advanced within his school. It is a school of 600 in our neighbourhood, and I was out there this morning with the member for Eden-Monaro.

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