Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we ensured that students in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not miss out. That of course means—QED, I would have to say—that students in New South Wales were in a good position, the position that was committed to by the previous government. The position now sees the other states and territories—which were not included by the previous government;, and $1.2 billion was removed from that funding—on an equal footing with states like New South Wales, South Australia and so on. That is the most important aspect of our funding program—to ensure that we are increasing funding, which we are, by a record amount of $64.5 billion in recurrent funding for government and non-government schools over the next four years.