❓ Mr Day questions the Minister for Education on funding the increased school leaving age, given the current budget. The Minister responds defensively, criticising the opposition's cost estimations and outlining a scoping exercise to determine resource needs.
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I refer the minister to his plan to increase the school leaving age by 2006, which he has now announced no less than seven times. Dr G.I. Gallop: You can’t say enough about a good thing. Mr J.H.D. DAY: It is one thing to talk about it and it is another thing to do it and fund it. That is the purpose of this question. Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Dr G.I. Gallop: You can’t say enough about a good thing. Mr J.H.D. DAY: It is one thing to talk about it and it is another thing to do it and fund it. That is the purpose of this question. Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Mr J.H.D. DAY: It is one thing to talk about it and it is another thing to do it and fund it. That is the purpose of this question. Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Dr G.I. Gallop: You can’t say enough about a good thing. Mr J.H.D. DAY: It is one thing to talk about it and it is another thing to do it and fund it. That is the purpose of this question. Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Mr J.H.D. DAY: It is one thing to talk about it and it is another thing to do it and fund it. That is the purpose of this question. Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Given that the budget for the Department of Education and Training is not receiving any real increase this year, how does the minister plan to fund this commitment, which will ultimately cost about $30 million a year? Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
I am familiar with the term “political bastardry”, and what we are getting is political sad sackery. Everybody in Western Australia knows that we have to raise the school leaving age - everybody. The member should look at his question, which referred to 2006. We are now looking at the 2004-05 budget, and 2006 is the earliest possible time. There is another budget to come in the meantime. We are not going to do what the Opposition is doing and just pluck a figure out of the sky and say it will cost $30 million a year. Who says? Where does that come from? It is like Sad Sack’s little sack of ideas: let us think of a reason we should knock this on the head. What can we do? Let us say it will cost $30 million a year. Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
Very briefly, we are going through what could be described as a scoping exercise right across Western Australia to see what resources there are and how many additional resources, if any, we will have to put in place, and when the time comes we will have to fund it. We will, and, if the member is in government, he will.
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