Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Victorian schools, for which Senator McKenzie is a proud advocate and representative—and she is of course a former teacher in those schools—will be significant beneficiaries out of these changes. The Victorian public education system will see an average growth rate of 5.4 per cent under these reforms, catching up and making up for the fact that they got a bad deal out of the different deals that were done by the previous, Labor government.

That will see public funding for government school students in Victoria grow from around $2½ thousand per student in 2017 to $4,256 per student in 2027. This is significant growth for Victorian public schools, from $1.53 billion in 2017 all the way through to $3.13 billion by 2027. It will help schools like the Bendigo Senior Secondary College, with around 1,600 students, who will get additional funding over that period of $16 million plus— (Time expired)