Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I apologise, Mr Deputy President. In the case of state schools that means that state governments will bear the costs. Who here would charge state Labor governments with looking after our schools? I know in my home state that the state Labor government cannot even air-condition the schools for the students. How can we trust them to look after all those ongoing costs? When it comes to independent and Catholic schools, who is going to be—