Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I was mentioning, the national audit revealed that the national average is one computer to every five students, despite claims from the then Minister for Education, Science and Training that she had ‘yet to see a school that is not well served with computers’. One to five! That was the attitude of those opposite—everything was just fine. In round 1 of the program 946 schools from across Australia were invited to submit an application. These were schools with a student to computer ratio of one to eight. One to eight? You should be ashamed after 12 years in government. And worse was identified through the national audit. Round 1 provided funding of over $116 million to 896 secondary schools across Australia for 116,820 computers to take these schools to a ratio of one to two. (Time expired)