00:00The report was commissioned in 2022 by the previous Labor government and involved a group
00:07of independent assessors attending each of the state's more than 1,200 facilities. Now the
00:13findings of that report show that there's evidence of water damage, staircases that are unfit for use,
00:19termites and roofs caving in at these facilities. Now the education minister says that this puts
00:26the state in a $414 million repair backlog. He says this is evidence of the previous government
00:33under investing in state facilities. This report clearly shows that the backlog would not be cleared
00:39certainly in one year. Given that it's $441 million, there are elements of the report that show
00:46you can have a smoothing of the funding that's needed over the decade, but it's important to say
00:53that Labor needs to answer these questions at the moment before we get on with the job of fixing
00:58it. We're trying to fix a lot of things, we're trying to deal with a lot of issues such as the
01:03ones I've mentioned, behaviour, bullying, red tape, and we're trying to do that and then deal with this
01:10infrastructure issue as well. This report was handed down in February, but this is the first the
01:15education minister has spoken of it. Now this comes after yesterday 50,000 Queensland teachers
01:21walked off the job striking in protest of the conditions they're currently working in. Now
01:27those teachers are going into meetings with the state government today to continue negotiating
01:31a better pay deal. Now evidence of the difficult conditions they're working in with infrastructure
01:38in these schools being considered poor or very poor will no doubt play a key part in these negotiations
01:44today.
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