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

The honourable member will be pleased to know that total Commonwealth funding in Tasmania will grow from an estimated $409 million in 2017 to $427 million in 2018 and, by 2027 the Commonwealth's schools funding will grow to $594 million. Commonwealth per student funding over 2018 to 2027 in Tasmania is estimated to grow 4.1 per cent on average per year.

As far as funding for students with disabilities, what is happening is that there is a move to a national measure of funding for disabilities. At the moment, each state has a different measure of disabilities, and there is a shift, which is appropriate and has been well supported, to the NCCD, nationally consistent definitions of funding. What that is going to mean is that the number of students in Tasmania who will be funded for disability will increase, but they will be funded at different levels.

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