Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question goes to Senator Evans, representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Does the government agree with the Music Director of Victorian Opera, Richard Gill, that it is a national disgrace that Australian children do not have access to specialist music teaching in all primary schools and that there are lots of state schools who have none and who are seriously disadvantaged? Can the minister say how many primary schools do not have specialist music teaching and what are the disadvantages attached to that lack?