Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I refer the senator to the answer I just provided, which details how it is that funding for schools in the Northern Territory grows each and every year into the future, how it is that it grows quite significantly. And, in terms per-student funding for the likes of Northern Territory students versus Grammar, as I said, funding for students in the Northern Territory is higher for students in government schools than for those in any other government system in the country, and for those in independent and Catholic system schools it is higher than for those in any other Catholic or independent system in the country, which is rightly reflective of the higher needs in the Northern Territory.