Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer her to the minutes of the Eatons Hill State School P&C Association of 27 February, which state: ‘Eatons Hill State School was ineligible to receive funds from the BER scheme for construction of a hall, as it had already started planning its multipurpose hall. The principal was advised that the multipurpose hall project was ineligible to receive BER funds because it had already received SSS scheme funding from DETA of $151,000.’ And I refer her to an email from the principal on 13 March to various people, including the member for Petrie, which says: ‘Our school would be eligible for up to $3 million in funding for the two major—’

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