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

If the states had increased the funding at the rate of the Australian government there would be an extra $492 million in New South Wales government schools. Let us take the state of Victoria. If Victoria had increased funding at the same rate as the Australian government there would be an extra $403 million in Victorian government schools. Let us take Queensland. There was an increase in the 2006-07 Queensland government’s budget of six per cent for Queensland government schools.

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