Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I really do appreciate that protection. Thank you so much. So I have to say this very clearly. It made me feel so proud to be part of the Albanese government when the Albanese government negotiated with a grown-up government, the Western Australian government. It is absolutely lifting that that fantastic state over there, full of its teachers and a great government, could actually sit down—don't shake your head—and have deals being done. What we do know is that the schools should be funded by the states. That's their job. The states need to do the public funding. The model was this: 75 per cent by the feds, 20 per cent by the states and five per cent just left out there floating. But the Western Australian government, under the best premier in this nation and the best premier Western Australia—