Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government will be opposing this disallowance motion. The Capital Grants Program provides funding for non-government schools to improve capital infrastructure where they otherwise may not have access to sufficient capital resources. The Capital Grants Program has strong, long-term bipartisan support. Funding is allocated to schools according to identified student need. We made the point before the election that we remain committed to working with the states and territories to get every school to a hundred per cent of its fair funding level, and that absolutely remains the case.