Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

At the end of the motion, add “but the Senate condemns the Government for devising a funding system for non-government schools that:

        (a)    fails to take into account the relative wealth and income-raising capacities of each school;

        (b)    does not require an appropriate level of accountability and openness from non-government schools in exchange for the receipt of public monies;

        (c)    consistently favours non-government schools ahead of government schools;

        (d)    continues to allow non-government schools which are now largely publicly funded to discriminate against prospective students based on ability to pay fees;

        (e)    unfairly ties the funding of non-government schools to the cost of education provision in government schools;

         (f)    is formulated without any reference to its effect on the quality of school education as a whole”.

Question put.