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

That was grossly offensive to the parents of the 1.1 million students who attend Catholic and independent schools in this country. The unions’ unrelenting attacks on Catholic and independent schools, as demonstrated by the advertisements that they are running, totally misleading advertisements, are also borne out by what the unions say. In a submission to the Senate inquiry into Commonwealth funding for schools, they state this:

The Australian Education Union has long opposed any funding to private schools.

That is what the Australian Education Union says. In March this year, a press release from the New South Wales Teachers Federation said:

The New South Wales Teachers Federation will continue to campaign for

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• a redistribution of funds from private schools to public schools.

The Australian Education Union is working in lock-step with the Labor Party. Just a few weeks ago the Labor Party adopted the union position on education funding—again this year—and it is now up on their website. The Labor Party’s national platform restates the hit list formula. We know it, you know it and the public knows it. I call upon the Leader of the Opposition to publish the list of schools that the Labor Party will take money away from.

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