Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Senator Kim Carr. On 24 July 2008 in a media release the Hon. Julia Gillard, the then minister for education, said:

This is an important step in meeting the Government’s commitment to at least halve the gap for Indigenous students in Year 12 or equivalent attainment rates by 2020.

The new facilities will provide more than 150 beds across a range of accommodation styles.

Are newspaper reports that the government will now not build 152 beds in three boarding hostels in the Northern Territory as promised correct or is this just simply another broken promise?