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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Schools in New South Wales will receive average annual growth per student over the decade of 4.8 per cent. What the Commonwealth is doing, what my government is doing, is delivering precisely what David Gonski called for: transparent, consistent needs based funding. What the Labor Party did was a series of special deals. I can well imagine that those that got the best deals would want to hang on to them and leave those that were left behind, like Western Australia, very far behind. The fact is all Australians school students should be treated fairly. They deserve full needs based funding—consistent and transparent across the nation. Labor used to call for it. They have given up on it. They are now trying to stick with their secrecy and their special dealing. It will take 150 years to get to the right level of funding under their model; it will be done in 10 years under ours. We are doing it, we are getting on with it, exactly as Gonski recommended.

Ms Ryan interjecting—

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