❓ Question regarding outside sponsorship for literacy and numeracy programs in schools, specifically referencing North Perth Primary. The Minister highlights the 'Getting It Right' strategy and a Perth Glory initiative, while facing opposition criticism regarding past stances on sponsorship.
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The minister has spoken many times in this House about the Government’s commitment to improved literacy and numeracy in our schools. I know that this is very important to the students and teachers from North Perth Primary School in my electorate, who visited the House today. Will the minister please outline whether there is scope for outside sponsorship and help in this important area? Mr Barnett: And you might say why you deferred part of the literacy program. The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has not started his answer yet. Mr CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr Barnett: And you might say why you deferred part of the literacy program. The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has not started his answer yet. Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has not started his answer yet. Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr Barnett: And you might say why you deferred part of the literacy program. The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has not started his answer yet. Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
The SPEAKER: Leader of the Opposition, the minister has not started his answer yet. Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
I thank the member for Perth for the question. The member’s constituents and the children at North Perth Primary School are multicultural and have a strong interest, obviously, in literacy and numeracy programs. When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
When I became Minister for Education, the Government announced a $25 million Getting It Right literacy and numeracy strategy, and it committed to putting an extra 200 literacy experts into schools. The Government has embarked upon that in its first term, and there will be another development in that area tomorrow. The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
The other element of the member’s question was private sponsorship. Today, I was lucky enough to be at Koonawarra Primary School, at which a project was launched by Perth Glory, in cooperation with its major sponsor, Western QBE. Perth Glory is providing incentives for improved literacy skills in our schools. Thirty-three primary schools across the State will be involved in the program, which essentially encourages young people in the early years of primary school to improve their reading skills. Perth Glory will offer incentives for children who exhibit improved reading and literacy skills during the project, which will last for one month. That is one of the better initiatives that I have been part of, as Minister for Education, because it is most important to be able to bring into the education environment outside organisations, families, parents and community groups, and, importantly, if we can get them involved, sporting groups, business groups and so on. Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr Barnett: So why did your side of politics argue against sponsorship when the new education Bill was introduced? The Perth Glory project is excellent, but you argued passionately against sponsorship in government schools. Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
Mr CARPENTER: The Leader of the Opposition is right; the Perth Glory project is excellent. It is also excellent that the Government is putting in place improvements in the areas of literacy and numeracy, as opposed to the neglect, basically, of the education system by the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Education. He provided no leadership in education. He left behind a system in decline, and an environment in which a declining number of people were interested in becoming schoolteachers. This Government has turned that around in a single year. It has covered huge holes in the education budget in the space of a year. In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
In our first day back yesterday, I watched the Opposition closely to see whether there were any signs of improvement. I did notice a few changes, but they would best be described as cosmetic. For example, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has shaved off his beard, and now sits there as a bare-faced Liberal. We all know the track record there, and I do not want to offend standing orders. The member for Hillarys has moved to the front bench, which I would describe as the Opposition cutting off its nose to spite its face. In that process, the member for Darling Range has been displaced. No significant improvement has taken place in the performance of the Opposition. However, we are only at day two, and I am hopeful that there will be as much improvement on that side of politics as I hope to see in the literacy skills of our children, thanks to the cooperative spirit of groups like the Perth Glory.
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