Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As I've said, our government values the contribution of the Catholic education system, as we value the contribution of all parts of our education system, and indeed that is the position of the minister for education. What I would say is that the public school system across Australia is very concerned about the fact that the Labor leader wants to reintroduce special deals into our school-funding arrangements, when this government has been able to secure historic reforms, putting our school-funding arrangements on a genuine needs based foundation. Labor wants to go back to the discredited ways of the Gillard government and have a plethora of special deals. That is not the way that we will proceed moving forward. (Time expired)