House debates

Monday, 19 June 2017

Questions without Notice

Schools

2:42 pm

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

The House may be interested to know that, in the electorate of Scullin, there are 46 schools that will miss out on an average of $7.6 million if the Turnbull government's schools package is blocked. So I say to the member for Scullin that he should be aware not only that the Catholic school system will be getting $3.4 billion of additional money over the next decade but also that the Catholic school system will still be able to allocate the money in the way they see fit and that in his state and my state of Victoria the Catholic school system per student will see an increase of 3.3 per cent under the Turnbull government's plan. In the state of New South Wales the Catholic system, on a per student basis, will see an increase of 3.6 per cent. In Queensland that increase will be 3.5 per cent. In South Australia it will be 3.7 per cent. In Western Australia it will be 3.8 per cent. In Tasmania it will be 4.3 per cent.

The Catholic school system, like the independent school system and the government school system, will be much better off under the Turnbull government's school program and much worse off under Labor's 27 special deals.

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