Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

I was talking about some of the feedback I have received from principals and school communities. Heather Harrison, from Hervey Bay, said:

I am not a teacher, but I will have the pleasure of working in one of these soon-to-be-completed school facilities in regional Queensland. After being without a purpose-built library for many years, I now look in awe at the facility we will have, and I still cannot believe it.

The principal of Reidy Park Primary School, Barb Munt, told The Border Watch this week:

We would have had to have lamington drives for that next 100 years to get the money we need to get to do these sorts of things. It is wonderful.

Compare that to the comments made this week by the opposition finance spokesman, Senator Joyce, in relation to Building the Education Revolution. He said:

The rats have got to live somewhere during the Christmas holidays and a hall’s a good enough place for it.

How out of touch is Senator Joyce! (Time expired)