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

The Building the Education Revolution guidelines are adamant that no school planned for closure will receive funding and that the funding due to schools planned for amalgamation will be used for the new school site. The Minister for Education has addressed each and every one of the false claims that have been brought forward, whether it be in the Australian newspaper or by the opposition. The funding due to amalgamating Queensland state schools, such as Inala West and Inala, Richlands and Richlands East, Dinmore and Riverview, will all go to the continuing school. The funding due to South Australian Gepps Cross Primary School will be spent on equipment for the new site, not the site scheduled for closure. The opposition’s willingness to peddle these false claims betrays their ideological antipathy to fighting the global downturn. (Time expired)