Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We are delivering over the decade a 75 per cent increase in funding. We are delivering for government schools 20 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard right across the nation, because of course for these government schools the primary funder is the state or territory government. For non-government schools, we are delivering 80 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard, adjusted in accordance with their SES and, of course, added to with loadings for various matters: disabilities, low-socioeconomic background, English as a second language, Indigeneity and so forth. So it is a very thorough model.

The question for the Labor Party is this: if they say more money needs to be expended, are they saying that the federal government should pay a larger share of government schools' costs or of non-government schools' costs?

Are they saying the Schooling Resource Standard is not high enough or the loadings are not high enough? It has got to be one of those.

Ms Catherine King interjecting—

So Labor needs a policy. Twenty-seven secret deals, 27 secret betrayals of Gonski's vision, is not a policy; it is an embarrassment.

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