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

to schools; we will give $2.8 billion to schools over the next four years. We have put $1.2 billion in; Labor ripped out $1.2 billion. The member for Parramatta talks about strings being attached to New South Wales funding. The Labor Party's model was not that it had no strings attached—it had no money attached! If I was a state Treasurer or Premier, I would prefer the money to the strings. The coalition will provide the money to the states and territories, and we will treat them like adults, as they deserve. And they will be answerable to their electors at their election times in the same way as we are answerable to ours.

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