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

I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of the principal of the Berwick Lodge Primary School in the Australian today, which said that schools ‘are being harassed into signing off on templates they didn’t want’. It also said the guidelines for the school stimulus debacle ‘explicitly state that the Commonwealth reserves the right to refuse funding to a participant who releases information publicly’, accuses ‘state bureaucrats in being complicit in the siphoning off of vast sums from government schools’ and says that state bureaucrats have ‘accepted templates with only the flimsiest of building details and a total absence of costing valuations’. Why won’t the Prime Minister step in and refer the school stimulus debacle to the Auditor-General?

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