Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Mallee for his question. I know that he strongly supports the Turnbull government's commitment to increasing school funding by $18.6 billion over the next decade—a 75 per cent increase which will see more than 9,000 schools benefit, including the 119 schools in the electorate of Mallee. Those schools have 23,000 students and they will all benefit from the Turnbull government's school reforms.

In the electorate of Mallee, the member referred to Jeparit Primary School. It will see its funding going from under $5,000 per student today to more than $8,000 per student. And the founder of our great party, Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, went to Jeparit Primary School. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies rejected the sectarianism, the class warfare and the faceless men of those opposite, led at the time by Arthur Calwell. In 1963, Sir Robert Menzies, for the first time, properly funded the Catholic system—

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

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