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

I'll give that question the respect it deserves and highlight to those opposite that the Turnbull government has done what you lacked the guts to do. We took the true recommendations of the Gonski report and ensured they are applied in a way that is fair to everybody and provides growth in funding but is based on principle. You have no principles. You walked away from the Gonski report the moment you got it, saying we'd have a series of deals instead of consistency of school funding. You walked away from it at the 2013 election when you ripped $1.2 billion worth of funding out of state schools in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. You have walked away from it now in cobbling together a policy that doesn't address precisely what you're going to do in the long term for the bulk of students across Australia. You have not told any state government what your funding means for them, because you don't know. (Time expired)