House debates Questions without Notice

Education

Monday, 18 June 2007 House of Representatives

Ms Julie Bishop

Ms Julie Bishop Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues

3:09 pm

Mr Speaker, I am quoting from the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales, who said last week that this resources model is ‘a direct attack on parents of children in independent schools’. But it gets worse. The Leader of the Opposition has now chimed in on education policy. According to the Leader of the Opposition, they will fund all schools—government, non-government, religious or secular—based on need. In other words, they will fund all schools based on the resources model. And the resources model equals the hit list. So the hit list has now been extended to government schools. So the private income sources of all government schools are now being taken into account. Parents who raise money—

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