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

Every single student in Queensland would be a disadvantaged student under a Labor government, but under the Abbott government, they are $794 million better off. The Labor Party talks about 'no strings attached', and the member for Rankin made the same error. Under the Labor Party, there were strings attached for Queensland, but there was no money for Queensland. Let me pull the member for Rankin up. The Leader of the Opposition, before the election, did a deal with Victoria, and Denis Napthine pinged him, because he said at the last minute—as late as Saturday night—'We had an agreement finally from the federal government that they were prepared to amend the Education Act to confirm the autonomy of Victorian government schools.' In other words, the Leader of the Opposition planned to remove the so-called strings attached before the election. Now, after the election, he is trying to pretend that he was standing up for disadvantaged children. Only one side of the House is standing up for disadvantaged children and it is the one that has put $794 million back into Queensland so that Woodridge High School students get the fair deal they deserve.

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