Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much for your intervention, Madam Chair. I appreciate that because I am trying to put this on the record to get the minister’s response to the importance of enabling 260 eligible South Australian schools to attract funding of up to $850,000, with another 170 eligible schools to attract funding of up to $2 million. Those capital upgrades will benefit not just the lives of students but the entire communities in which the schools are placed. The government’s package requires that the community surrounding those schools be able to use the government funded capital upgrades for community purposes. I think that is a brilliant idea, particularly in our rural and regional communities, where some of the schools are going to improve their facilities enormously. Then the community will have an up-to-the-minute, state-of-the-art facility to utilise. That innovation has been welcomed by the South Australian government, as they told me yesterday when I spoke to them. Indeed, the word from the South Australian government— (Time expired)