Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Labor takes the view that education opens the doors of opportunity for Australians. Labor takes the view that it unlocks the doors of inequality. Labor takes the view that education has to be the first priority of government. However, that cannot be a one-way street. What we have seen in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland is the exact opposite. John Collier, the Chairman of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools in New South Wales, made the point yesterday:

The two goals are totally in conflict … There's no way in the world we can meet the drive for quality that Gonski envisaged like this. It's simply impossible.

The implication of such a loss of revenue is that, as far as this state is concerned—

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