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

I promise I will finish very shortly. These are trials of a particular technique intending to encourage increased school attendance. It is a punitive approach, a sanctions-based approach. Where are you comparing this approach to a positive approach? Are you, in fact, carrying out the same sorts of trials to measure the positive impacts, which we know actually work? We already know from looking at overseas examples that the punitive approach does not work. Where are you comparing like against like to measure what works best?