Education

The future of Western Australia depends on access to quality education for every child. Our Premier Colin Barnett and the State Government have introduced an ambitious program to modernise the management of our schools by giving decision making powers to principals and parents has already produced outstanding educational results for our kids.
 

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The Coalition believes skilled migration helps build a stronger Australia for the long term, not just to assist flood recovery efforts, Shadow Minister for Productivity and Population & Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Scott Morrison said today.

“The Prime Minister’s decision to guarantee a five day turn around for skilled visa applications raises many questions about existing practices,” Mr Morrison said.

“A quick turnaround on skilled visa applications should be busi...
The Coalition will not sign up to the National Curriculum in its current form, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today.

“The National Curriculum is not an end in itself, it must be an improvement on the existing state and territory curricula or it is not worth doing,” Mr Pyne said.

The curriculum has been widely criticised by education experts as ‘over-crowded, incoherent and lacking depth’, ‘a step backwards’, ‘inferior’, ‘lacking quality and clarity’ a...
Having promised to build a trades training centre in all 2650 Australian high schools in 2007, the Rudd/Gillard Government has only built 48 in three years, Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education said today.

A new report by the auditor-general has revealed enormous delays in the programme that the Prime Minister insists is being delivered exactly as promised.

The report indicates that problems between state and federal bureaucracy are the primary cause of the delays, and alarmingly, ...

The Shadow Minister for Health Peter Dutton today called on the Health Minister Nicola Roxon to intervene to sort-out the strife-riddled changeover to a national registration system for the medical workforce.

Doctors, nurses and other health practitioners are finding their registration has not been renewed leaving them unable to practice or take up jobs with subsequent detrimental impacts on patients.

Mr Dutton said Health Minister Roxon also needed to reveal and explain the extent of...

Peter Collier
Minister for Energy; Training and Workforce Development; Indigenous Affairs

Colin Barnett
Premier; Minister for State Development

Murray John Cowper
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy; Training and Workforce Development; Indigenous Affairs (with respect to Training and Workforce Development and Indigenous Affairs only)

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