House debates
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Questions without Notice
Schools
2:17 pm
Peter 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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