Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer to the minister’s answer yesterday that the one-student Evesham State School is in ‘community consultation about an amalgamation’. I also refer to the minister’s answer today which identified the nearest other schools to the Evesham State School as between 72 and 124 kilometres distant. Can the minister reconcile these two statements, or does she agree that she has allocated $250,000 to build a library at a one-student school that the House can only conclude on the basis of today’s answer faces the prospect of closure?

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