Hayes JoanneJO HAYES (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I stand to take a call on the third reading of the Education (School Donations) Amendment Bill. Again I support this side of the House by opposing the bill for numerous reasons mainly because it discriminates against some children and especially those in 8 9 and 10 deciles. My colleagues on this side of the House have discussed that in their contributions today and I was quite interested in what Chlöe Swarbrick from the Greens had to say about her time when she went to high school and off to university. She went to a decile 10 school and her parents weren't wealthy. They struggled but they got there—they got there—and this is what this bill will do. It will actually discriminate against people like Chlöe who has done well—SPEAKER: Order!JO HAYES: —in her education background. Her family would have missed out on this particular incentive payment.I know a number of children from deciles 8 9 and 10 schools that will miss out on this $150 incentive payment. It is an issue for the schools that are actually eligible for this incentive. It is an issue because it costs more for them to buy into it rather than it being good for them. So we've only got a third of the eligible schools buying into the system and a lot of them will actually miss out on further donations from parents from those particular schools. Now it says that some schools don't even ask for a school donation. Well I think all schools should be asking for a school donation. It doesn't matter what decile it is; they should still always ask for that.Hon Clare Curran: Why?JO HAYES: They should because this is part and parcel of our education system. I came from a family that wasn't that wealthy; it was quite a poor one actually. And yet my parents scrimped and saved. We cleaned schools. We did everything to make ends meet to be able to pay those fees because those fees helped towards our trips away as a school as our group going out to places that we weren't able to go to because we were in a country school and a country school that wouldn't even qualify for this particular funding and there are a number of rural schools out there that won't because of the way that the deciles are set up. So it is a discriminatory bill. The previous speaker Jo Luxton talked about the suite of education policies. Well I can say positively that the suite of education policies from this Government will actually bring this country to its education knees. It will do that on a number of levels. Remember I never said it was a suite of education policies; it was that side of the House that brought it up in the first place. So there will be a number of those policies including this one that will be detrimental to the people to the students of this country. It will not close any gaps; it will cause further gaps.The Government has failed to actually sit and listen to what the submitters have had to say by outlining where those gaps are going to be and saying whereabouts the discrimination and inequalities are going to occur. That is why this side of the House cannot support something that will actually widen the gap for those who are struggling who are struggling already in their deciles 8 9 and 10 because we want our kids to have good education. We've always wanted our kids to and we will scrimp and save to make sure that they do have that good education. This bill here gives an opportunity for all schools—this is what the Government has said: all schools will get it eventually. Eventually never comes. What I've noticed with this Government is that eventually never ever comes. It always ends up over here somewhere where nobody actually benefits from it.So I stand and I support this side of the House. We oppose this bill. It is badly drafted. It is one of a suite of education policies that will bring this country to its knees. We all need to look across at that side and say Well all that side did it to this country." and then National will come back into Government and have to clean it all up. So I oppose this bill. Mr Speaker thank you."