Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Let me refer initially to funding for students with a disability—students with special needs, in large part. The Australian government has already introduced a funding loading to support students with a disability, which began this year, 2014. It has provided for students with a disability, no matter where they live or where they go to school, so an assertion that students in regional areas with special needs are somehow disadvantaged by those opposite's interpretation of the government's budget measures is in fact fallacious and should be rejected. It is a scare tactic. It is not going to work, because it is simply not true. That is the bottom line. Those opposite do not want to think about the truth or utter the truth; they wanted to avoid the question.