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

The Australian government currently provides about $33 billion under the current funding agreement from 2005 to 2008. The expectation is that the figure will be around $42 billion, but that will obviously take into account a range of issues, including enrolments and the indexation figures. But I have given an indication of what I believe will be the likely figure for the 2009 funding quadrennium, which will take effect from 1 January 2009. We anticipate it to be around that figure.

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