House debates

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Questions without Notice: Additional Answers

Schools

3:07 pm

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

Mr Speaker, if I may, on indulgence: because the honourable member for Port Adelaide is from South Australia, and the school the member for Sydney asked me about earlier was from South Australia, can I say that the Our Lady of La Vang School will receive an extra $3.9 million over the next 10 years and the per-student contribution from the Commonwealth on the government's estimator will go from $28,855 to $41,390 in 2027. Once again, the member for Sydney set out to mislead the House with claims of cuts that are simply not true.

Photo of Tony SmithTony Smith (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

The member for Sydney on a point of order?

Photo of Tanya PlibersekTanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | | Hansard source

Well, actually, on indulgence—as the Prime Minister had indulgence to add to an answer—

Photo of Tony SmithTony Smith (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

No, the member for Sydney will resume her seat.

Photo of Tanya PlibersekTanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | | Hansard source

They used to get—

Photo of Tony SmithTony Smith (Speaker) Share this | | Hansard source

No, the member for Sydney will resume her seat. The member for Sydney has other forms of the House, particularly at the end of question time. The member for Sydney—I am not going to take the House right through all the detail of the practice, here, now. If you want to have a chat we can do it in my office any time you would like to. The member for Sydney has other forms of the House, if she feels she has been misrepresented—

Honourable members interjecting

If members think they are going to argue with me and stay in the chamber, they have another think coming!