Information about the Inquiry
On 15 October 2008, the Senate referred the
provisions of the Schools Assistance Bill 2008 and the Education
Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 to the Senate Standing Committee on
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for report by 27
November 2008. The committee has decided to
consider these bills together and you may make a submission on one or
both.
The purpose of the Schools Assistance Bill is to implement the
government's commitment to provide stability in Commonwealth funding for
non-government schools for 2009-2012.
The purpose of the Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 is to amend
the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 to enable the
Commonwealth to maintain support for the achievement of improved
Indigenous education outcomes, including meeting its responsibilities for
the policy framework and priorities, engagement with stakeholders and
investment in support of those outcomes.
The bills may be accessed at:
Schools Assistance Bill 2008
Education Legislation Amendment 2008
The committee invites written submissions which should be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
The closing date for submissions is Friday, 31 October 2008.
The committee requests that where possible, submissions should be provided
by email to eewr.sen@aph.gov.au preferably as MS Word or RTF format
documents. Notes to assist in preparing submissions are available from the
website
https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm.
Once the committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential
committee document. Release of your submission without the committee's
permission will remove the protection of parliamentary privilege. The
committee normally makes submissions public. Please indicate if you want
your submission to be kept confidential.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to
the Parliament House TTY number (02 6277 7799). Adobe also provides tools
for the visually impaired to access PDF documents. These tools are
available at: http://access.adobe.com/. If you require any special
arrangements in order to enable you to participate in a committee inquiry,
please contact the secretary.
Further
information on the inquiry can be obtained from the committee secretary on
02 6277 3520.
For further information, contact:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia