House debates

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Questions without Notice

Schools

2:17 pm

Photo of Tanya PlibersekTanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to a report from the ABC where the principal of St Clair public high school in Western Sydney says the government has 'wiped out' the funding increases his school would have receive under Labor’s education funding plan. The principal says the funding for his school will be cut by $300,000 in the next year alone, and he will have to cut literacy and numeracy programs. He said:

… every school in NSW that would have received that money will now receive less under what the Government has promised this morning.

What does the Prime Minister say to the principal of— (Time expired)

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