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The Auditor-General has found more than 30 per cent of major contracts that should have been disclosed have not been disclosed. John Brumby promised to be open and transparent, but instead delivered the secret state. 
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  • John Brumby boasts of his commitment to education but the Victorian Government provides the least recurrent funding per student in Australia, and that has left Victorian schools struggling for the last five years.
    Poor discipline and crumbling classrooms are holding back the education of Victoria's next generation.

    Discipline has become a major problem in Victorian schools but John Brumby simply ties the hands of teachers and principals.

    The Coalition’s Safe Schools policy will stem rising schoolyard violence and bullying.

    Maths and reading skills have fallen under Labor and parents are losing confidence in Victorian government schools.

    The failures in Victorian education are despite the State Budget doubling under Labor from $18 billion to $37 billion.

    John Brumby only acted to increase teachers’ pay after the positive reception to the Coalition’s plan to make Victorian teachers the highest-paid in Australia and Labor still won’t match the Coalition’s plan to boost funding for students in Victoria’s Catholic schools.

    John Brumby is creating a generation of students who are struggling with poor literacy and numeracy.


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