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Coalition appears to have numbers to pass Gonski 2.0 bill in Senate – question time live Greens say needs-based school funding won't happen if Catholics get special deal – politics live
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Message to Pauline:
The proof is in the pudding @PaulineHanson. Mainstreamed all the way now so many world firsts. A valued & loved man. Inclusion works.#autism pic.twitter.com/sVcWvEExUj
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Lisa Singh is moving a pro-yoga motion in the Senate for the International Day of Yoga. pic.twitter.com/GLLsp1MGnC
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Richard Di Natale says if the government wants to do a transition deal for the Catholics, the Greens will not support it.
There is additional funding for the Catholic sector under this model.
(But we have yet to see the details of the amendments for the crossbench.)
Hanson-Young jumps in to say one more thing.
It’s disgusting that Pauline Hanson thinks kids with autism should not be in our classrooms...what sort of woman is Pauline Hanson, what sort of mother? It is disgusting.
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Hanson-Young: we have secured more money for public schools and a national funding body. #auspolHanson-Young: we have secured more money for public schools and a national funding body. #auspol
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Richard Di Natale is being very cagey about the role of the Australian Education Union. He does not want to criticise the union’s role.Richard Di Natale is being very cagey about the role of the Australian Education Union. He does not want to criticise the union’s role.
He says the AEU supported the four elements the Greens took into negotiations.He says the AEU supported the four elements the Greens took into negotiations.
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After sweating blood, nothing.After sweating blood, nothing.
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Richard Di Natale says he thought the negotiations with government were going OK. Richard Di Natale says he thought the negotiations with the government were going OK.
We thought those talks were progressing really well when the bells rang.We thought those talks were progressing really well when the bells rang.
He says he thought the party was making progress on special funding for disabilities and ditching the deal done with the catholic education sector. He says he thought the party was making progress on special funding for disabilities and ditching the deal done with the Catholic education sector.
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Greens: we cannot see needs based funding if the Catholics get a special dealGreens: we cannot see needs based funding if the Catholics get a special deal
Greens leader Richard Di Natale and Sarah Hanson-Young are up now.Greens leader Richard Di Natale and Sarah Hanson-Young are up now.
Di Natale says they are disappointed that the government have offered a special deal to the Catholic sector, which is a 12 month delay.Di Natale says they are disappointed that the government have offered a special deal to the Catholic sector, which is a 12 month delay.
Di Natale says he literally found out about the crossbench deal when they were called from the negotiating room to the chamber for a vote.Di Natale says he literally found out about the crossbench deal when they were called from the negotiating room to the chamber for a vote.
Hanson-Young says there should be no special deals.Hanson-Young says there should be no special deals.
That means no special deals for the Catholics.That means no special deals for the Catholics.
She says she always wanted to do the right thing by the public school sector, given she is a result of a public school and her daughter goes to a public school.She says she always wanted to do the right thing by the public school sector, given she is a result of a public school and her daughter goes to a public school.
She says part of the reason Gonski 1.0 was not effective was that the “Catholics squealed like hell because they didn’t want the light shone in dark corners”.She says part of the reason Gonski 1.0 was not effective was that the “Catholics squealed like hell because they didn’t want the light shone in dark corners”.
We need to make sure public schools are the gold standard, not the safety net.We need to make sure public schools are the gold standard, not the safety net.
Hanson-Young says it seems needs based funding will not occur if the Catholic system get a special deal.Hanson-Young says it seems needs based funding will not occur if the Catholic system get a special deal.
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Calla Walquist reports:Calla Walquist reports:
Two of the Turnbull government ministers who could face contempt of court proceedings have deleted tweets containing criticisms of the Victorian judiciary.Two of the Turnbull government ministers who could face contempt of court proceedings have deleted tweets containing criticisms of the Victorian judiciary.
The human services minister, Alan Tudge, the health minister, Greg Hunt, and the assistant treasurer, Michael Sukkar, were ordered to appear before the Victorian court of appeal on Friday to explain comments they made to the Australian, describing the appeal bench as “hard-left activist judges” who were “divorced from reality” and conducting an “ideological experiment”.The human services minister, Alan Tudge, the health minister, Greg Hunt, and the assistant treasurer, Michael Sukkar, were ordered to appear before the Victorian court of appeal on Friday to explain comments they made to the Australian, describing the appeal bench as “hard-left activist judges” who were “divorced from reality” and conducting an “ideological experiment”.
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Bowen to Turnbull: In 10 days time nearly 700,000 Australians will have their penalty rates cut. While millionaire also get a tax cut. Given real wages are going backwards, will the Prime Minister use what’s left of this Parliamentary sitting week to stop millionaires getting the tax cut and stop ordinary workers getting their pay cut?
Turnbull goes to the company tax cuts as the method for increasing wages. But he spends most of the answer on CFMEU official John Setka.
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Shorten to Turnbull: This morning it is reported that a Liberal Party member and a mother of a child at Corpus Christi said “I can’t begin to describe how disappointed I am with the government right now, that we are being hung out the dry by our own MPs. Why is the Prime Minister hanging the parents of school children out to dry just because they choose to send their children to a Catholic primary school?
Turnbull says the Catholic sector will see a substantial increase in funding over 10 years - $81bn or an increase of $3.4bn in total.
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Plibersek to Turnbull: On Monday in question time the prime minister claimed funding for students with a disability in Tasmania would not be cut by one-third or $12 million in 2018. Yesterday the prime minister again refused to admit he was cutting their funding. Has the prime minister now seen this answer to a question on notice issued by his own education department which confirms his cut? Will the prime minister now admit that he mislead the House on Monday, or is he so arrogant that he can’t admit he got it wrong?
Turnbull says under Gonski 2.0, the funding loading for disabled kids will change. Previously students with disabilities were funded at the same rate no matter what their level of disability.
Now there will be three different loadings from:
supplementary: 42% in primary, 33% in secondary.
substantial: 146% in primary, 116% in secondary.
extensive: 312% in primary, 240% in secondary.
It is a nationally consistent measure and what it means is that more students in Tasmania and across the country will be receiving supplementary support.
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Shorten to Turnbull: A press release by the National Catholic Education Commission this afternoon calls on senators to vote against the plan that will not deliver needs-based funding. Why is this prime minister punishing parents who choose to give their children a Catholic education with this rushed legislation? Why won’t he take it back to the drawing board and start again?
Josh Frydenberg takes the question and goes over the same ground.
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Labor to Turnbull: According to the National Catholic Education Commission St Theresa’s Catholic Primary School in the electorate of Corangamite will have to increase its fees by as much as $2,841 because of the Prime Minister’s $4. 6bn cut to Catholic schools. Why is the prime minister making parents of Catholic school children pay more while giving millionaires a tax cut in just 10 days’ time?
Turnbull accuses Labor of mocking children.
Not sure how we got there ...
But what is interesting is the PM is still using the $18bn of additional funding over the decade – which was the original bill.
The Greens and the crossbench were negotiating more money at a faster rate, some $5bn on top of the $18bn. It may be that the extra funding needs to be ticked off by the expenditure review committee. Or maybe there is something different in the compromise package.
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