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Home All Topics School Camps, Adventures, and Excursions

More rebates available for schools to visit Canberra

by Rhiannon Bowman
March 5, 2024
in All Topics, Department of Education, Latest News, Policy and Reform, School Camps, Adventures, and Excursions
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Additional funding will apply to all schools that travel to Canberra in 2024, including those which have already completed visits. Image: frdric/stock.adobe.com

Additional funding will apply to all schools that travel to Canberra in 2024, including those which have already completed visits. Image: frdric/stock.adobe.com

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The federal government is making it more affordable for students to visit Canberra following bumper visitor numbers in 2023.

Following the success of last year, additional rebates are being extended for 2024.

Almost 89,000 school children visited Parliament House and the Australian War Memorial last year, an increase of 39 per cent from the previous year.

The Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) program provides financial assistance for students to visit Canberra and experience national democratic, historical and cultural institutions first-hand.

Schools from outer regional, remote, very remote areas and disadvantaged schools are eligible for additional rebates in 2024. Additional rebates are being extended an extra year, following a successful pilot in 2023.

These additional rebates, for example, take the rebate amount for a student from a remote, disadvantaged school in New South Wales, 500-999 kilometres from Canberra, from $45 to $157.50.

For a student from a very remote, disadvantaged school in the Northern Territory, 3,000 kilometres or more from Canberra, the rebate will increase from $510 to $2,040.

“It’s important to get out of the classroom and experience our historical and cultural institutions first-hand – to see and feel our history at the War Memorial and Old Parliament House, and see it being made in the new Parliament,” Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare said.

“That’s why the Albanese Government is offering rebates for schools to make it more affordable to come to the Capital. I want more Australian students, wherever they live, to do this and that’s what these rebates do.”

The additional funding will apply to all schools that travel to Canberra in 2024, including those which have already completed visits. For more information, see www.pacer.org.au.

2023 participation in the PACER program by State/Territory:

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