Speeches
National Curriculum, Distance Education
Friday, 17 February 2012 12:45
February 16 2012
Dr FLEGG (Moggill—LNP) (3.48 pm): I rise to raise the issue of the disgraceful lack of preparation, resources and support for distance education students in the rollout of C2C and to call on this government to take urgent action to remedy this. It is not only the Brisbane School of Distance Education but others around the state that have been unable to start the school year on time. They have been supplied with material such as digital MiSticks which are full of bugs and do not work properly for the students. They are heavily reliant on the internet, which causes problems where there are only satellite connections. Surely the least this government could have done was to make sure their resources worked.Building Boost Grant Amendement Bill
Friday, 17 February 2012 13:13
16 February 2012 Dr FLEGG (Moggill—LNP) (11.41 am): We should look back at the origins of why a BuildingBoost was instituted in Queensland in the first instance. It was a measure that the government implemented to run up until the appropriate date on which the state election was expected to placate people about the amazing decision the government had made to remove the stamp duty concession on the family home. Perhaps then it is not surprising that, given the election will be a little later than many people thought, here we are extending that date. But the real issue here is that the removal of the stamp duty concession on the family home goes on forever. The Building Boost not only does not apply to any existing home that a family may be buying in Queensland but of course will be gone very, very soon. Click here to read more.
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