Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I suppose the crux of this issue is what you define as essential services. If you are providing additional services beyond essential services, such as school services, where do you draw the line when services that are currently provided are not adequate to meet the needs of the community? For example, in Wadeye the Aboriginal children were encouraged to go to school, and they turned up for school—in fact, I think, almost double the number of students turned up to school than there were places for those students. Is that an additional service or an essential service?