Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) needs-based funding, where money is distributed equitably according to need, is essential to ensuring all students can access high-quality education,

(ii) that disadvantage occurs in all sectors of schooling, but is concentrated in government schools,

(iii) the discredited SES funding model was responsible for increasing inequity, and

(iv) the Government made a clear pre-election commitment to maintain the reformed school funding model from 1 January 2014 for 4 years, with the same funding envelope; and

(b) recognises that, in reneging on its pre-election commitment, the Government will perpetuate and worsen the inequities at the heart of the schooling system, which needs-based funding reform had the only chance of reversing.