Literacy and Numeracy Strategy

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:36): A supplementary question: who then is in charge of the panel with regard to delivering this new $70 million of literacy programs that the minister described earlier?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:36): We will be making detailed announcements about that panel in due course. We are not here at the bidding of the opposition to explain detail to them but, if I can correct the way in which that was articulated, the panel is not in charge of the strategy: the panel is separately responsible for guiding—

Mr Marshall: Hopeless!

The SPEAKER: The leader is warned for the second and last time.

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE: I hope there are no schoolkids in the gallery today to see that kind of behaviour. The panel will be guiding all our efforts and interventions irrespective of whether it's paid for through this particular project, but we will be making announcements about the panel in due course and the member can wait for that.