❓ Mrs. Martin asks about the purpose of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council's visits to north-eastern wheatbelt towns. Mr. Carpenter details the visits, highlighting community support and government commitment to rural education.
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RURAL AND REMOTE EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL
I refer to the minister’s media statement of 7 August when he announced that representatives of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council would be visiting a number of north eastern wheatbelt towns. Can the minister explain the purpose of these visits? Mr CARPENTER
I refer to the minister’s media statement of 7 August when he announced that representatives of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council would be visiting a number of north eastern wheatbelt towns. Can the minister explain the purpose of these visits? Mr CARPENTER
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
On Monday and Tuesday we achieved excellent results in Geraldton and spoke to staff at the famous Beachlands Primary School and Allendale Primary School. I was in Warburton on Thursday. On Friday I went with the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council team on a tour of a number of schools in the wheatbelt areas because I thought it was very important not only that the council go directly to those schools and experience first-hand the situation in schools and communicate directly with the staff and so on, but also that I as the minister should go if I had the opportunity. We divided into three groups. I went with Dr Murray Lake, who is the Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, to Miling, Wubin and Buntine, and visited Dalwallinu District High School; the second group went to Calingiri, Wongan Hills and Ballidu; and the third group visited Cadoux, Kalannie and Yerecoin. This was a really wonderful experience for everybody involved. Incidentally, I think it was the first time that the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council had undertaken such a trip. It was of great benefit to the members of the council because they could go out into those areas and see what was going on in those schools and hear about the needs and so on; also, for me as the minister it was very good. Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Issues out in those areas need to be addressed - education, the provision of government housing for staff, bus transport to and from schools - but what stood out above all else was the strength of the communities’ support for the local schools in those small wheatbelt towns. I would like to have recorded in Hansard my congratulations to the small communities in those areas and the people who do so much - Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr Omodei: They are great people. Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER: They are great people. They do so much to support their schools, the staff in their schools and, of course, their own children in those schools. Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr Trenorden interjected. Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
Mr CARPENTER: As the member said, that is all done voluntarily. There are amazing people out there doing very good things. I reassure all those people that as long as we are in government and I am the minister - or whoever else from this side is the minister - the Gallop Government will do everything it possibly can to provide the highest possible education in every school in the State - government and non-government. I reassure the schools in those communities, which struggle to get children to attend and to attract the resources and which do so much to help themselves, that we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that the quality of education provided to their children is second to none. I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
I thank the people involved in the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council, particularly the Country Women’s Association, whose initiative it was to organise this program. Everybody got a lot out of it and I hope we can deliver some very tangible benefits to those schools.
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