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

Catholic schools around Australia are set to benefit from the Turnbull government's reforms, seeing real growth in their funding right around the country. It is growth from $6.3 billion of funding that goes into the eight different Catholic education commissions this year in 2017, and grows to $9.7 billion by 2027, going to those same eight different Catholic education systems. There are those who want to live in an alternative universe, where they pretend that 'funny money' that was never budgeted for somehow exists and can be provided ad nauseam to the highest—