The Hon Christopher Pyne MP

Recent Speaker

Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeship

April 6, 2011

“What would a Real Education Revolution look like”

Shadow Minister for Education Christopher Pyne addresses the National Press Club about how the Coalition would reshape Australia’s schools.

Mr Pyne believes the deficiencies in the Government’s education policies are manifest:


·    The BER programme continues to fail to be delivered competently (now subcontractors remain unpaid, in some cases for over six months)
·    The national curriculum faces further delays and its content is suspect. 
·    The My Schools website is proving to be unreliable and controversial. It will now be part of the government and unions anti-private school campaign
·    Where is Minister Peter Garret and why is he missing  in action  and unable to explain his portfolio’s shortcomings

Labor can no longer claim to be the Party of education. Without a single Minister responsible for the portfolio, the sector has become bogged down in bureaucracy.


Christopher Pyne will outline the Coalition’s vision about how a real education revolution can occur in the education sector, and how simple reforms can have an enormous transformative impact.