Steve Georganas (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a sad day when we have to get up here and debate something we buried the hatchet on in 2013. In the lead-up to the 2013 election, we all recall the bunting, the posters and the advertising messages which clearly said: 'Us too! Us too! We're part of Gonski!' We worked out a system for the first time in the history of Australia where schools were funded on a needs basis. In other words, schools were looked at and assessed and we ensured that there was enough funding to deal with any shortfalls to ensure children had the right start to life so they could go on and do bigger and better things.

To see the government today rehashing something they did not agree with back in 2013, but for the sake of an election decided to do the 'Us too! Us too!' thing and put out their advertising and bunting and campaigned on it to win votes to be able to win government, is a disgrace. What they have done now is reneged on that promise of 2013.

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