Thursday, 31 July 2025

 Ben CARROLL (Niddrie – Minister for Education, Minister for WorkSafe and the TAC) (09:38): I also rise to say to anyone who says the fight is not worth it, that politics cannot make a difference, that all parties are the same: look at this week’s NAPLAN results for education. These are no accident. These results are a collective effort, a sustained effort by our Labor government from 2014. On this side of the chamber we do not believe that postcode determines destiny. We do not think education is just a nice thing to do. We see education as the single most important public investment in our future, and these results show why we are the Education State.