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

that moves Australia one step closer to finally delivering the fair, transparent and nationally consistent funding model that David Gonski recommended. Honourable members opposite call, 'Shame!' Well, they should be ashamed! They should be ashamed for their hypocrisy, their inconsistency and their dishonesty. For how many years did they preach about Gonski funding? 'Do you give a Gonski?' they said. Well, the answer was: they did not. They corrupted the Gonski funding model, as Ken Boston, Gonski's co-author, described it.

Under our changes, over the next decade, schools will not only be $18.6 billion better off, but they will finally be funded based on need and, within the decade, the federal government will provide 80 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard for non-government schools and 20 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard for government schools.

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