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

I thank the senator for his supplementary question. Speaking of chaos, I think Mr Pyne referred to it quite effectively yesterday when he referred to the absolute wreckage that Mr Shorten had left behind in this portfolio area. We know that what he did was cut $1.2 billion out of school funding. We know that, of the jurisdictions across Australia, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland had never been part of the so-called national funding plan. We were actually told that Victoria and Tasmania had signed up, but they had not. We were actually told that the Catholic system had been signed up, but it was not. So it was a complete mess. To use Senator Dastyari's words, it was chaotic. What Minister Pyne has done is spend the last 11 weeks consulting with the states and territories and consulting— (Time expired)