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

The honourable member would be well aware that under the government's school funding policy—and, indeed, consistently with the practice of federal governments for many years—the federal government is the largest government funder of non-government schools, and of course state and territory governments are the largest funder of the schools that they own and operate. So the comparison the honourable member makes is completely inapt, totally inapt.

The position is that, under our model, by 2027, with all these systems getting different levels of funding at the moment—a system we inherited from the Labor Party—government schools, wherever they are in Australia, will receive 20 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard from the Commonwealth. And they will receive that whether they are in the Northern Territory or whether they are in Victoria or Tasmania.

Ms Claydon interjecting—

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