Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth) Share this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

(a) The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations used information collected through a Preliminary Survey conducted in early 2008 to establish that approximately 780,000 computers would be required to achieve a one to one student to computer ratio in Years 9 to 12. Since the Preliminary Survey, there has been some movement in the number of computers required as a result of:

The total number of computers now required is 786,848. This figure has not been broken down by electorate.

(b) The total number of computers that have been installed at schools in the electorate of Canning as at 31 March 2011 is 2,422 outlined in the table below.

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