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

Far from what the senator wants to imply, I am more than happy to confirm for her that Tasmanian public schools over the next two years, as she specifies, will see funding grow from $183 million estimated to be paid this year to $190 million estimated to be paid next year to $197 million estimated to be paid the year after, and that will keep growing to $261 million by 2027—clear strong growth in relation to Tasmanian government schools, enabling them to indeed meet, pretty much, the schooling resource standard. They do that because the Tasmanian coalition government or the Tasmanian Liberal government down there, led by Will Hodgman, actually invests in their school systems, which, together with what the Turnbull government is proposing, will get those school systems very close to receiving the full schooling resource standard, unlike, for example, the Victorian Labor government. (Time expired)