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

She says, 'Under Malcolm Turnbull's policy, more than half of funding goes to private schools. That is despite the fact private schools only account for around 30 per cent of the nation's schools.'

An opposition member: Yes.

'Yes,' they say. Is that an outrage? What about state governments? The fact that the Commonwealth is the major government funder of non-state and -territory schools has been the case for many decades, under Labor and Liberal governments. This is just an example of the pathetic, misleading diatribes that we get from the member for Sydney.

We have an opportunity now to bring the school funding wars to an end. This is not about politicians. This is not about education unions. This is not about education bureaucrats. This is about our children. It is about their future. It is ensuring that they get the needs based funding they deserve, whatever school they are in, whatever state they are in, whatever system they are in. When they have special needs, they get the funding they need. We then do the work to ensure that, with Gonski 2.0, they get the quality education they need so that they can be top of the class right around the world.

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