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

They call out 'needs-based'. Well, it is needs-based because it is based on the Schooling Resource Standard, which is adjusted for non-government schools on the basis of the school community's ability to pay, using the socio-economic standard which has been used by governments for many years, both Labor and Liberal governments. That has been as consistent as recommended by David Gonski and as utilised by the Labor Party itself. The difference between our model and what Labor had is that they had 27 secret deals. The same student in the same school, were that school in one system or another, or one state or another, could get dramatically different funding. No consistency, no transparency, no equity, not needs based, only based on the political emergency of the Gillard government, desperately wanting to collect a few signatures for their 27 secret deals.

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