House debates

Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Questions without Notice

National Education Standards

2:01 pm

Photo of Scott MorrisonScott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I never take anything the member for Sydney presents at the dispatch box as having any accuracy, because she's been found out on so many occasions to have come to the dispatch box and made a series of smears and assertions which are not borne out, as indeed is the case with what she's just presented to this House.

I can tell parents right across this country that, under our government, we are providing record funding for schools. Under our government, for the first time, real needs-based funding is being provided, growing from $13.8 billion in 2014 to $17.5 billion in 2017, and that will grow to $32.4 billion in 2029. We are providing that funding for schools around the country without increasing taxes. We're not going to put our hands into the pockets—

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