Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Clearly, the senator was not listening to the previous answer. The process for putting in place the disability loading—funding for the needs based disability loading—was included in the last budget. It will be in this budget. It is in the forward estimates. It is there. We are committed to delivering on it. We are committed to seeing the introduction in 2016 as planned. It is completely irresponsible, frankly, of those opposite to be peddling these types of lies, to be creating this type of fear, when the reality is that the funding support is there and the policy work is being undertaken in a cooperative way with the states and territories to make sure that we get this right.

Unlike those opposite, who like to develop funding models that were just about throwing more out cash in an ill-thought-through way, we are putting in place the framework that will stand the test of time and ensure needs based funding for students with disability is delivered. (Time expired)