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

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Earlier in question time today the member for La Trobe asked me a question. His question was: ‘I refer the Prime Minister to the concern expressed by school principals in my electorate about the quality of their bushfire refuges and their belief that the proposed upgrades will be insufficient. I further refer the Prime Minister to my unanswered letter to him of 16 June 2009 regarding the immediate need for the highest quality fire refuges for schools in the Dandenong Ranges.’

I would draw the honourable member’s attention in the first instance to the reply from my parliamentary secretary, dated six weeks ago, which, in turn, referred to a following substantive reply from the Attorney-General to him, which is dated 15 September.

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