Ludlam, Sen Scott

Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia) (23:42): I want to quickly test some figures on the minister. Based on the statistics in the most recent Closing the Gap report, we had a 62.3 per cent attendance rate just before the intervention was initiated and 57.5 per cent in 2011. Does the minister accept that those are the figures, and does he accept that that is a drop and that it would not be a particularly ringing endorsement of SEAM if that is the case?