Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I do not have a copy of the Gonski report with me. I am not able to take the senator through it; but I am happy to get him properly briefed. This was a comprehensive, independent review of our school system. It was a review that was broadly accepted across the school system and the community—if we are going to improve the economic future of this country, we need a highly educated workforce. But you have got to start with your education system and you have got to invest in that. We are going to invest. We have already invested at record levels in education. We have made a huge transformation already in our education system across all sectors. We have adopted a National Plan for School Improvement. We are going to drive a process where Australian schools put the child's needs at the heart of all our funding decisions and we are going to drive, with the states, this important reform. (Time expired)