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01 January 1964
End Date
31 December 1964
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 425a
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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA  

SPEECH  

BY  

Rt. Hon. SIR ROBERT MENZIES,  

K.T., C.H., Q.C., M.P.  

ON  

PROVISION OF SCIENCE BUILDINGS  

AND EQUIPMENT IN SECONDARY  

SCHOOLS  

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.  

[From the “ Parliamentary Debates” 5th March, 1964.]  

Ministerial Statement.  

Sir ROBERT MENZIES (Kooyong—  

Prime Minister)—by leave—At the last  

Federal elections the Government placed  

before the people of Australia plans to  

assist the provision and equipment of  

science teaching laboratories in secondary  

schools. It was made dear that the assist-  

ance to be provided for such purposes would  

be available to all schools with complete  

absence of any discrimination. Procedures  

to achieve this end have now been dis-  

cussed with all of the States—naturally this  

has taken some little time—and there is  

agreement that they raise no special  

problem for any State, although the  

Tasmanian Minister for Education has  

indicated that he would prefer the dis-  

tribution to the States to be on the basis  

of secondary school enrolments rather than  

State populations as we intend. Where  

necessary, all States will co-operate with  

the Commonwealth in the carrying out of  

the scheme.  

The amount for the purpose is £5,000,000  

annually and it is intended to divide the  

amount each year between Government  

schools and non-Government schools. The  

division will be made by obtaining the num-  

bers of secondary school pupils enrolled  

2929/64.  

in Government schools and the numbers  

of secondary school pupils enrolled in non-  

Government schools and dividing the total  

amount of money available in proportion  

to those numbers as certified by the Com-  

monwealth Statistician. This will be done  

on an Australia-wide basis and would at  

present result in sum of the order of  

£3,750,000 being available for Government  

secondary schools throughout Australia and  

sum of the order of £1,250,000 being  

available for non-Government schools  

throughout Australia. The sum available  

for Government schools will then be allotted  

to the various State Governments in pro-  

portion to the population of the States as  

certified by the Commonwealth Statistician.  

Allotment will be made by way of  

grant under Section 96 of the Constitution  

and the recipient State will be entirely  

responsible for spending the sum allotted  

it in ways which, in its opinion, best suit  

the requirements of education in that State.  

The grant will, however, be made subject  

to the conditions that it can only be spent  

on the provision of science teaching labora-  

tories in secondary schools or the provision  

of capital equipment for such laboratories,  

and it will be subject to the further con-  

dition that the items on which it is spent,  

and the source of the funds so spent, are  

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