Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues) Share this | Hansard source

the Australian government’s component increases automatically. Over the 2005-08 funding period—that funding arrangement—the Australian government is already providing $33 billion to state governments for our schools. I hope that at the state education ministers’ meeting in April I receive bipartisan support to recognise that our teachers are professionals and that they should be respected and rewarded as such.

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