Division Description Changes — Bills — Australian Education Bill 2013, Australian Education (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013; Second Reading — 26th Jun 2013

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senate vote 2013-06-26#7 Edited by system on 2014-10-07 16:21:22	Title Description <p class="speaker">John Hogg</p> <p>Order! The time allotted for the consideration of these bills has expired. The question is that the amendment on sheet 7404 moved by Senator Mason be agreed to.</p> John Hogg Order! The time allotted for the consideration of these bills has expired. The question is that the amendment on sheet 7404 moved by Senator Mason be agreed to.
senate vote 2013-06-26#7 Edited by mackay staff on 2014-01-24 09:04:12	Title Description ~~<p class="speaker">Brett Mason</p>~~ <p>We are debating the Australian Education Bill 2013 and the Australian Education (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013. The Prime Minister has described the government's Gonski reforms as 'the biggest change to school education in 40 years', yet the Senate has been given only two hours and 45 minutes, or 165 minutes, to scrutinise and debate these bills. This is an insult to the Senate and it is an insult to the taxpayers, whom the government wants to saddle with a $16.2 billion bill for its reforms. That is 165 minutes to debate the expenditure of $16.2 billion.</p> <p>The government is as careless with people's money as it is with the constitutional process of Senate scrutiny and Senate review. Of course, this is not the first time that the Senate has debated the Australian Education Bill. The difference is that the last time, a few months ago, we were debating a nine-page document which was short on detail and rich on platitudes and motherhood statements. It was more of a policy document, or an aspirational rhapsody, than detailed legislation. Now we have in front of us two bills and, sure, there is plenty of detail—I accept that. Yet there is not enough time to debate them properly on this the second or perhaps the third last day of sittings of the second term of the Rudd and Gillard governments.</p> <p class="speaker">John Hogg</p> <p>Order! The time allotted for the consideration of these bills has expired. The question is that the amendment on sheet 7404 moved by Senator Mason be agreed to.</p> <p>The government has had years to get this done and to get it done properly. The Prime Minister—the then Minister for Education—has been talking for a long time about her desire to see a new school funding model. Mr David Gonski was commissioned in 2010 to look into it, he delivered his report in November 2011 and here we are today, more than a year and a half later, with less than three hours to debate bills that reflect a deeply flawed new funding model which has been rejected by many states and territories.</p> ~~<p class="speaker">Jacinta Collins</p>~~ ~~<p>That is not true.</p>~~ ~~<p class='motion-notice motion-notice-truncated'>Long debate text truncated.</p>~~

~~Brett Mason~~
We are debating the Australian Education Bill 2013 and the Australian Education (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013. The Prime Minister has described the government's Gonski reforms as 'the biggest change to school education in 40 years', yet the Senate has been given only two hours and 45 minutes, or 165 minutes, to scrutinise and debate these bills. This is an insult to the Senate and it is an insult to the taxpayers, whom the government wants to saddle with a $16.2 billion bill for its reforms. That is 165 minutes to debate the expenditure of $16.2 billion.
The government is as careless with people's money as it is with the constitutional process of Senate scrutiny and Senate review. Of course, this is not the first time that the Senate has debated the Australian Education Bill. The difference is that the last time, a few months ago, we were debating a nine-page document which was short on detail and rich on platitudes and motherhood statements. It was more of a policy document, or an aspirational rhapsody, than detailed legislation. Now we have in front of us two bills and, sure, there is plenty of detail—I accept that. Yet there is not enough time to debate them properly on this the second or perhaps the third last day of sittings of the second term of the Rudd and Gillard governments.
John Hogg
Order! The time allotted for the consideration of these bills has expired. The question is that the amendment on sheet 7404 moved by Senator Mason be agreed to.
The government has had years to get this done and to get it done properly. The Prime Minister—the then Minister for Education—has been talking for a long time about her desire to see a new school funding model. Mr David Gonski was commissioned in 2010 to look into it, he delivered his report in November 2011 and here we are today, more than a year and a half later, with less than three hours to debate bills that reflect a deeply flawed new funding model which has been rejected by many states and territories.
~~Jacinta Collins~~
~~That is not true.~~
~~Long debate text truncated.~~