Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure the Assistant Treasurer would agree with that sentiment exactly. Clearly the Leader of the Opposition has been recently spooked by the member for Grayndler. I think he has panicked—to be fair, he's only human after all—and made a captain's call, taking his own colleagues by surprise.

Let's talk about the myth the opposition have been peddling here today—that somehow we're cutting money from schools and hospitals. Every time they say something, you have to bear in mind that they cannot be trusted. You must always question it, because they cannot be believed. There are no cuts to school funding; in fact we're delivering record funding for Australian schools. In my electorate more than 23,000 students are enrolled across 131 public schools, so I know a little bit about school funding, because I have a lot of students and a lot of schools. This year those schools in Durack will receive funding of $91.8 million from those sitting on this side of the chamber. In 2027 those schools will receive a share of $163 million in federal funds. The funding per student will jump from $3,900 this year to nearly $7,000 over the next 10 years. Let's be clear: that's up, not down.

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