Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

who will not see this sort of funding increase that they deserve to see.

In Queensland there is the loss of billions of dollars each year, and per school. If you go to a school in the electorates of Brisbane or Moreton, that is something like $2.5 million each over the next six years. That is the loss to education in Queensland: a huge loss right across the country, and all because the Leader of the Opposition puts his political interests over the interests of Australian schoolchildren.

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