My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. The National Party education minister in New South Wales, Adrian Piccoli, said about Labor's plan for extra school funding:

… the Nationals supported the Gonski reforms right from the start. It's good policy, that really benefits country schools and country kids … we don't play politics with our children's future.

Does the Acting Prime Minister agree with his Nationals colleague, Adrian Piccoli, or will he continue to make excuses for the government's policies of cuts that will see every country kid in every country school worse off?

Mr Chester interjecting—