Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Universities and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that according to modelling prepared by state government and non-government schools, more than 3,000 schools—both public and private—stand to lose funding under the government's new funding model, how could the Prime Minister and the minister claim with straight faces for months and months that no school will lose a dollar? Mr President, I asked the minister this question before, but he did not answer it. Will any school be worse off in real terms—the emphasis being 'real terms'—under its funding reforms?