Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) and the Minister for Education and Training (Senator Birmingham) to questions without notice asked by Senators Collins and O'Neill today relating to school funding.

I farewell those students from Sacred Heart College in South Australia. It's a very fine school, a terrific school. About Easter time 100 years ago my grandfather was at the Western Front, fighting in World War I. He'd been born in Jamestown in the mid-north of South Australia, not far from where the Musk batteries are now. His father was Irish and his mother was Australian, but her mother was also Irish. His mother had died when he was one year old, and he ended up being brought up by his grandmother, Ellen Silverthorne.