Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

I think it would be the vision of all in this place that it should be 100 per cent. That is the goal, and it would be foolish of us to have any lesser target. We will be rolling this out community by community. It will not be that the Northern Territory has X number of people who should be of enrolment age and are not attending; it will be done community by community. Both benchmarks and goals will be set within the community construct. We have a fair idea of how many people should be at school and are not enrolled, and we have an idea of how many people are enrolled and are not at school. With those statistics, we should have a pretty good idea of who is not attending. We will continue to use and build on those statistics. I think we all have to acknowledge that attendance records may not be consistent across the board, but certainly the intervention gives us this opportunity to ensure that the attendance records are taken in a way that can assist us in that matter.