Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

No, it gets worse; it gets much worse. He goes on to call them the ‘notorious templates’—that lovely whiff of central planning that I know Senator Carr loves—designed by state governments. So, in fact, there is insufficient flexibility in this scheme and, worse, there is overcharging. This is much more expensive than it should be. Mr Grossek goes on to say:

Furthermore, never have we been able to access any real cost figures for the now notorious templates. Independent valuations we obtained made a mockery of the—

department of education’s—

claims about the value of the templates. All could be built for embarrassingly lower costs than the notional figures.

What have we got here? We have a waste of money. We do not have the best spend at all, we do not even have a good spend; we have a shocking spend. This is the worst possible way to spend $14.7 billion. The Building the Education Revolution is a shambles.