Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Sydney told her colleagues that the Greens would be moronic to support the government school funding package. She claims it would be moronic to support needs-based funding. She, drenched in sanctimony and inconsistency, sits there claiming to be the apostle of equity and fairness, yet she objects to the schools and the students with the greatest need getting the greatest support. What a mockery! What a pathetic trio they are—a shadow education minister that abandons needs-based funding, a Leader of the Opposition running interference for the banks that he claims he wants to subject to a royal commission and, of course, the member for Jagajaga abandoning the commitment to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The opposition have never supported needs-based funding—only rhetorically. What they have supported are 27 secret deals—27 special deals—which Ken Boston, one of the members of the Gonski panel, described as nothing more than a corruption of David Gonski's vision. We are delivering it. We are delivering the actual needs-based funding that Gonski recommended. The opposition should support it. (Time expired)

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