Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

I really do suggest, Senator Mason, that you get some consultants in to assist you with your tactics committee if that is the quality of questions as a result of these profound reforms. I do not know how more quickly than ‘as soon as possible’ things can be delivered. What should we say—that it should be even more quickly than as soon as possible? What a nonsense! The former government’s computer-student ratio was one to 12—one to eight, on average. We are reducing that to one to two as soon as possible. We are honouring our election commitment to the letter.