Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

We announced on Monday that we would put an extra $1.2 billion into Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, which will pay for base funding and loadings in those states over the next four years. That is the formula for the model and so, axiomatically, that means that loadings and the base funding will be contributed to by the Commonwealth. That also means that, from 2014 onwards, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and the ACT will all have their funding entirely secured. This means that loadings and base funding will also be paid for, contributed to by the Commonwealth in those states and territories. What the government can guarantee is that we are putting $1.2 billion more into the school funding model to ensure that the full amount of money flows to the states—

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