Instrumental Music Service

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (14:41): Supplementary: can the minister give a commitment that, where a music teacher is not available in a public school, there will never be an impediment for a private teacher to provide tuition in that instrument within school hours?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:41): The guidelines that we now have as the subject of an Industrial Relations Commission consent decision require us to go through steps in order to exhaust those other alternatives. If those other alternatives are exhausted, then the employment of a private music teacher is permissible within school hours on a school site.