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Nick Xenophon Team 'optimistic' on Gonski 2.0 deal – politics live
Labor fails to amend Gonski 2.0 in Senate – politics live
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Labor's attempt to amend Gonski 2.0 fails
Senate now votes to move the school funding bill to a committee stage, where senators can ask direct questions of the minister about the legislation.
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#BREAKING Independent senator Lucy Gichuhi will support the government's Gonski 2.0 school funding package.
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Meanwhile... Australian Government MP George Christensen is up praising Philippines president Duterte as "one of the great world leaders" pic.twitter.com/Wy5b2SGPkG
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The Labor amendment says this:
the Senate notes that the bill: (a) would result in a $22.3 billion cut from Australian schools, compared with the existing arrangements;
(b) removes extra funding agreed with states and territories for 2018 and 2019, which would have brought under-resourced schools to their fair funding level;
(c) locks in sector specific payments of 80% SRS for non-government schools and just 20% for government schools, the very opposite of a sector blind model;
(d) sees the Commonwealth government abandon all responsibility for ensuring that Australian students reach, at a minimum, 95 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS).
(e) reduces funding to some wealthy overfunded schools, which Labor supports. However, it also increases funding for other overfunded schools, while cutting funding to some of our most vulnerable school students;
(d) would particularly hurt public schools, which receive less than 50% of funding under the Government’s proposal, compared to 80% of extra funding in Labor’s school funding plan; and
(e) results in only one in seven public schools reaching their fair funding level after 10 years.”
Note d,e,d,e. That is what the amendment says.
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The Senate is voting on the Labor amendment moved by Jacinta Collins.
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Jacqui Lambie has finished her Gonski speech and I am no clearer as to which way she will vote.
Derryn Hinch is speaking now. He will support.
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Simon Holmes a Court has taken issue with my definition of dispatchable power.
dispatchable: power that can be turned on & off at willbaseload: min. cont. power required(coal's dispatchability has significant limits)
I bow to his knowledge.
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Independent senator Jacqui Lambie is critical of the government’s lack of consultation with the Catholic sector. She says the Coalition is always waiting until the last minute and then tries to push legislation through while blaming the chaotic senate.
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie is critical of the government’s lack of consultation with the Catholic sector. She says the Coalition is always waiting until the last minute and then tries to push legislation through while blaming the chaotic Senate.
She also criticises Labor for claiming they implemented the full Gonski when their model was a compromise on the “true Gonski”. She said Labor’s system has not improved the Tasmanian system.
She also criticises Labor for claiming they implemented the full Gonski when their model was a compromise on the “true Gonski”. She says Labor’s system has not improved the Tasmanian system.
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Nick Xenophon up now in the Senate.
He says David Gonski’s appearance at the Turnbull press conference was an endorsement of the bill.
I strongly support the intent of the legislation but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement.
Xenophon says the fast-tracking of the funding means the schools will get to the School Resourcing Standard in six years rather than 10.
He says the states’ requirement to maintain their end of the funding is important.
He strongly supports an independent body to monitor the funding model, including the socioeconomic model which is such a concern to the Catholic sector.
Xenophon says Labor’s Gonski was a flawed “knock-off” of the original report which perpetuated special deals.
The $22bn is Labor’s promise … they have not been able to follow through on it.
He says it is not comparing apples with apples but imaginary pears.
Xenophon will not vote against a bill that provides extra funding and a better model.
This will be a good outcome for students around the country and I don’t want the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
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Malcolm Roberts has spoken on the Gonski report. It involved East and West Germany and his kids’ Montessori school.
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The cross-media ownership bill passed the lower house and will sit in the Senate queue.
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@DavidLeyonhjelm says won't vote for any Gonski deal that increases spending, esp the 6-year bring forward.
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Greens senator Janet Rice is speaking on Gonski 2.0.
She says the Labor claim that the Turnbull plan cuts $22bn in school funding is meaningless.
It is a cut of what Labor promised at the 2016 election, not a cut on the status quo. That is, if this bill does not pass, schools will not get $22bn extra over the next decade. She says if Labor wanted to lock in that $22bn, they should have locked it in in 2013 before the election that brought Abbott to power.
They chose not to do this because they wanted to use school funding in political game playing.
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With NXT, PHON and Hinch (8 votes) pro, govt only needs 2/3 of Lambie, Gichuhi and Leyonhjelm to do #Gonski deal without Greens #auspol
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Chair of the Senate committee which inquired into Gonski 2.0, speaking in support of the legislation.
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Speaking list on Gonski 2.0.
COLLINS
McKIMM
FAWCETT
BERNARDI
HANSON
McKENZIE
RICE (speaking now)
WATT
LAMBIE
MCCARTHY
CHISHOLM
LINES
O’NEILL
PRATT
URQUHART
ROBERTS
BIRMINGHAM
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Barnaby Joyce was asked this morning about his Nationals colleague George Christensen crossing the floor over the Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut penalty rates.
He says the Nats believe in freedom more than any other party (on some things ... I’m thinking marriage equality not so).
Barnaby, who crossed the floor 28 times as a young senator, says the Greens never cross the floor.
Were they all born peas in a pod?
In the Nats, they can cross the floor though they can expect “some time in Coventry, otherwise known as the seat of Dawson”.
