Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

But we continue to let it go on. The AEU, which has spent $20 million on a Gonski campaign, when presented with a model that is going to end the inequity, cannot come to the party. During the Senate inquiry, when asked, 'Are you happy for students in WA state schools to continue to receive different levels of funding to students with the same need in my home state of Victoria?' the AEU refused to answer, but it made it very clear that it wanted to keep the entrenched disadvantage inherent in the 27 different deals as part of the policy of the Commonwealth government. It is absolutely an abomination. I commend this bill to the Senate. I thank the crossbenchers who are actually putting Australian students first in their consideration. (Time expired)