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

Repeating a falsehood doesn't make it true. The Labor Party and its leader constantly claim that there are cuts in the budget to schools when in fact our needs-based funding model for schools delivers an additional $24.5 billion over the next 10 years, support for government's schools rises from $7.7 billion to $9.7 billion from 2018-19 to 2021-22, and support for non-government schools rises from $11.8 billion to $13.8 billion from 2018-19 to 2021-22. All of that is in the budget papers, so the proposition that schools funding is being cut is untrue. It is untrue. Schools funding is going up every year. As far as Catholic schools are concerned, there are record levels of recurrent funding for Catholic schools, totalling $6.6 billion this year and rising to $9.2 billion in 2027, and funding will grow by around four per cent per student per year on average over four years.

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