Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Kim Carr, the Minister representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Given that yesterday the Prime Minister said that this week she will introduce legislation to give every child an entitlement to an excellent education, which is a commendable aspiration but it must be backed by enforceable legislation and a significant financial investment in Australian schools, particularly government schools that teach the vast majority of students experiencing disadvantage, and given that the Gonski review called for real action on a new schools funding model and much greater investment in our education system, my question to the minister is: where has Gonski gone? How much additional funding will the government invest in public education over the next four years to ensure that the Gonski recommendations will be implemented sooner rather than later? And where will that money come from?