Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

If I can assist Senator Carr, the person to whom he is referring is Mr Adrian Piccoli, the Minister for Education in New South Wales. Let me make it very clear, as I have on two or three previous occasions, that we are talking about the same level of funding for schools in New South Wales and the same level of funding for other states and territories that agreed to the National Education Reform Agreement. That will now flow through to Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, who were left out by those opposite. It is the same amount of funding for New South Wales. I think that is fairly simple to understand. If the senator really pays attention he will know that the New South Wales government—(Time expired)