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

Half of the overall allocation. What we have said from the outset is that we are out there to support the economy as a whole and the education system as a whole, government electorates and non-government electorates, government schools and non-government schools. The objective of the exercise is to provide employment opportunities for tradies, for sparkies, for local people and small business, and for others who are contributing to the construction industry in the country, as opposed to sitting on our hands and doing nothing.

Again I go back to the member for Sturt, who is obviously very sensitive about the investments which are being made in his electorate. I look forward to his subsequent statement about which of these—I presume he can speak in the MPI debate—he objects to: Burnside Primary School classroom redevelopment, half a million dollars; Campbelltown Primary School classroom refurbishment, $600,000; Campbelltown Primary School library new construction, $1.4 million; East Marden Primary School new construction, $2½ million; East Torrens Primary School library new construction, $1.7 million; East Torrens Primary School classroom refurbishment, $300,000; Gilles Plains Primary School hall new construction, $2 million; Heritage College—

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