House debates

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Questions without Notice

Schools

2:17 pm

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

and endorsed by many in the community. Interestingly enough it was endorsed, I saw, by the member for Calare, who on his website was kind enough to observe:

There is widespread acknowledgement that every child should have access to the best possible education …

He got that part right. Then comes the punchline:

The Coalition hopes that the Gonski Review will lead to better school systems across Australia …

I could not have said it any better if I had tried. But at the end of the day let's not forget what this panel said. They found:

… differences in educational outcomes should not be the result of differences in wealth, income, power or possessions.

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