Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In doing so, of course, the Liberal Party has embarked on a course which means that non-government schools around this country could open in January and February next year without the benefit of government resources. I am sure all members in this House can imagine what chaos and what pressure that will bring non-government schools—on the principals, on the teachers, on the parents and, indeed, on the students themselves—given that for many of these non-government schools government funds are 40, 50, 60 or 70 per cent of the funds that they use.

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