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

Mr President, the Tasman District School received $206,000 for the construction of a new kindergarten and $590,000 for the refurbishment of existing classrooms and amenities under the Primary Schools for the 21st Century element of the Building the Education Revolution program. Within Tasmanian schools generally, government schools received some 71 per cent, some $31 million; Catholic schools received $8.8 million, some 20 per cent of the funding; and independent schools received $3.6 million, or nine per cent of the funding. (Time expired)