Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I can now repeat, I think for the fifth time, that no school will lose money under our plans, that in fact funding for every school—government, independent, Catholic—will continue to rise under our plan for school improvement. Any figures that Senator Mason is quoting from the weekend's press are figures that are not those of the government. The assumptions made in those figures do not bear any resemblance to any government policy, and schools should in no way take those—