Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Our funding model is sector blind. It means that government, Catholic and independent schools are all funded based on need. Every school can find out what the funding is. And it is a record funding level this year and every year: $17½ billion this year, increasing to $30.6 billion in 2027. That is an extra $18.6 billion over the decade. No wonder it has been well received, because it is seen to be exactly what it should be: fair, needs based, consistent and transparent. Of course, transparency is not a long suit of the Leader of the Opposition—as his former union members used to find out—but neither is consistency.

This is an opposition that, as we have seen, is trying to run a protection racket for the banks, which they claim to be wanting to bring to book. They will not fund the NDIS, which the Leader of the Opposition spoke so warmly and proudly about. He asked whether I had been at some meetings with him when he was the parliamentary secretary for disabilities. Not surprisingly, I was not accompanying him around the countryside. But I tell you the meeting he has failed to turn up to—it is the meeting of this parliament when we vote to fund the NDIS. That is the question. It is all very well to showboat and grandstand, but an honest leader, a fair dinkum leader, funds the promises he makes. He has not done— (Time expired)

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