Emma McBride (Dobell, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Catholic educators and parents from the dioceses of Broken Bay are in the public gallery today. The dioceses of Broken Bay have calculated that under the government's $22 billion cut to schools they will lose around $30 million across 44 schools in 2018 alone. Has the Prime Minister had any representations from the member for Robertson about these cuts in her electorate?

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The good news for the member for Dobell is that with 44 schools and over 28,000 students under the—

Mr Rob Mitchell interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for McEwen will leave under 94(a).

The member for McEwen then left the chamber—

Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Under the Turnbull government's plan, the schools will, on average, be $7.1 million better off. Gorokan High School will be $9.4 million better off; Wyong High School will be $7 million better off; Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School at Shelly Beach will be $9.3 million better off; and St Cecilia's Catholic Primary School, with 300 students, will be $6.5 million better off. The Catholic schools system will be better off under the Turnbull government's plan, to the tune of $3.4 billion over the next 10 years. That is why it has been welcomed across the board, together with independent and government schools. Right across the country, over 9,000 schools will be better off—an additional $18.6 billion and a 75 per cent increase. The Leader of the Opposition, who has always called for a needs-based funding model, is now turning his back on the students of Australia.