Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As we reflect today on the year of chaos, the year of dysfunction and on the pure number of lies exposed, which have been given by this government, I am led to think that there are few areas that are more—

Eric Hutchinson (Lyons, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker—

Bruce Scott (Maranoa, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Lyons will resume his seat. The member for Adelaide has the call.

Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

As I was saying, there are few areas where lies have been more disgusting than when they betray every young Australian, as they have, when it comes to the issue of school funding. Before the last election there were very clear promises. Those opposite publicly claimed that they were on a unity ticket when it came to school funding. In fact, they said:

You can vote liberal or Labor and you'll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school.

They had signs at polling booths on election day, saying, 'Liberals will match Labor's school funding dollar for dollar.' But of course that has been exposed as nothing more than an utter deceit of the Australian people. In this year's budget we clearly saw, in black and white, in their own print, that where the current legislation states very clearly that school funding will be indexed at 4.7 per cent, the government in their own budget have said they will index school funding at CPI, which is currently 2½ per cent. This is an utter betrayal of every school in our nation. (Time expired)