Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this motion. It's a bit late for the coalition to be proposing this. Their record for almost a decade in government was school attendance down, high school completions down and teacher shortages up, and now they want a review. We've already done the review. The O'Brien review had a team of eminent experts visit 92 schools, hold 137 stakeholder meetings and consider 266 submissions from parents, students, teachers and experts. We have a 248-page report from them and we're getting on with the proper funding of schools and tying that funding to reforms that will lift student outcomes. I'm not sure what Senator Henderson thinks she can tell us that these experts have not.