Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to reports that Berwick Lodge Primary School’s school stimulus project manager has estimated that a proposed relocation of sewerage pipes would cost $203,000, whereas the principal has obtained an independent quote for just $63,000. How does the minister justify this staggering inflation of 300 per cent while ignoring the pleas of St Lucy’s special school for blind and disabled children in Wahroonga who are facing a cut of $80,000 to their funding as a result of Australian government policy?

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