❓ Question on the implementation of the Twomey report recommendations, particularly regarding funding and the establishment of an advisory committee. The Minister's response focuses on current actions and criticizes the opposition's stance.
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TWOMEY REPORT — RECOMMENDATIONS
I will begin by acknowledging the students in the two galleries from Halls Head Primary School and from Mandurah Baptist College, who are guests of the member for Murray. I refer to yesterday’s long-awaited release of the Twomey report. (1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN
I will begin by acknowledging the students in the two galleries from Halls Head Primary School and from Mandurah Baptist College, who are guests of the member for Murray. I refer to yesterday’s long-awaited release of the Twomey report. (1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN
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I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
I refer to yesterday’s long-awaited release of the Twomey report. (1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
I refer to yesterday’s long-awaited release of the Twomey report. (1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(1) How many recommendations will be implemented this year, given that there was no extra allocation of funds in the recently released budget? (2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(2) When will the minister establish the education and training workforce advisory committee as recommended in the report, and who will be included in its membership? Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN replied: I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for the question. (1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
(1)-(2) I did release the report yesterday. It sets out a range of recommendations, which are quite helpful, and many of which we are in the process of implementing. When I released the report yesterday, I also provided a document that set out dozens of actions that the state government is taking that deal with many of the recommendations contained in the report. They include scholarships that are being provided for teaching students going to university, to ensure that when they graduate they go out to country schools throughout Western Australia where we need teachers. They include a pay offer to the workforce, which will make Western Australian teachers the best paid teachers in public schools of all Australian states, without any shadow of a doubt. That is a very important part of our response to ensuring that we properly reward the teaching workforce throughout Western Australia. I was surprised to see the shadow Minister for Education and Training, without having read the report, come out and say that every single recommendation within it should be adopted. Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : He read it. Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : He must be a speed reader because his press conference yesterday was 10 minutes after mine. He said that every single one of the 83 recommendations should be endorsed. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! Leader of the Opposition! Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It has cost implications. Does the Leader of the Opposition support what the shadow Minister for Education and Training had to say? Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : We support standing up for schoolteachers; not like you. Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : The report sets out a good blueprint for change. We are progressively implementing many of the recommendations contained in it. However, there are cost implications attached to many of them. The shadow minister has said that the opposition would implement every single one. I am just wondering whether the Leader of the Opposition endorses that. Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : I endorse his efforts to stand up for teachers because you are failing. That is what I endorse. I do not think that you like being exposed. Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Is the Leader of the Opposition able to tell us what he would pay teachers? Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr T. Buswell : You do not like it do you? You do not like being exposed by somebody who understands what it is like to stand in front of a classroom full of students and teach them. That is your problem. Every time you stand up you get shot down. Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : I am just wondering whether — Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Order! This is what happens when one invites interjections. Perhaps when a minister does so, the person responding can keep the response succinct and others learn not to participate in the exchange between the two people. Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Mr M. McGOWAN : Opposition members will not reveal what they would pay teachers throughout Western Australia even though we will. We will make them the best paid teachers of all Australian states. It is about time that when the shadow minister faces the press and does his usual performance of whingeing and whining about everything in public education in this state, he reveals what he would pay teachers, and the Leader of the Opposition should come clean on what he would pay teachers in this state. We will progressively implement many of the recommendations in the report, and we are currently doing so. We intend to continue to have the best public education system in Australia. Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
Several members interjected. The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
The DEPUTY SPEAKER : Unfortunately, some members did not quite get the point of my pointing out to them standing order 95. It does not actually give members the opportunity to try to shout down the person with the call. Therefore, the member for Dawesville, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Murray and the member for Moore are called to order.
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