The education minister discusses a government-funded initiative to replace diesel boilers in 70 rural schools and increase mileage rates for relief teachers to address fuel cost impacts and staffing shortages in remote areas, while also addressing political silence on caucus vote
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No, but we have to replace these diesel boilers anyway. And so we're just accelerating the work programme. We want to make sure that schools have confidence that into the future if there is continuing volatility, they won't have to worry. And so it's just a work programme that we're accelerating. But more importantly, we heard from schools, we actually went out and phoned and visited every single school in the country to get a picture of what's happening for them. And there were some themes that emerged. One of them was the boilers, but more importantly... the relief teachers so part of today's announcement was of course increasing the mileage rate for our relief teachers so that they actually choose to go out to those rural and isolated schools
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