The New South Wales schooling minister has warned Christopher Pyne that he expects the federal government to stand by the state’s Gonski school funding deal.
Adrian Piccoli says New South Wales signed a six-12 months binding agreement under the earlier Labor government’s reforms and will not return to the prior “broken” school funding model.
Pyne, the federal schooling minister, announced he was preparing to review all facets of the Gonski funding versions following finding the agreements Victoria, Tasmania and the Catholic colleges sector signed with the federal government prior to the election were not finalised.
Piccoli explained he anticipated the federal government to fulfil all the obligations under the six-year agreement signed in April.
“As the minister for schooling, I can say that NSW will not agree to returning to the broken SES funding model,” he said in a statement.
“The new funding model has secured additional resources for classrooms across NSW, with the vast majority going to colleges in most need to have.
“Any try to adjust the model now may possibly see each government and non-government colleges shed funding.”
Piccoli explained New South Wales had currently implemented the new funding model for the state’s 2,200 schools and it had been met with wide acclaim from the education sector.
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten – who was training minister when the bargains had been struck with Victoria, Tasmania and the Catholic sector – mocked Pyne’s suggestion that they had been not finalised and accused the government of utilizing “weasel words” to back out of election commitments.
“What we’re getting informed by Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne is that all of us have collectively imagined that there was a press conference with the state minister for education of Victoria, that there was a press conference with the Tasmanian minister, that there have been statements from the Nationwide Catholic Schooling Commission,” Shorten said in Melbourne.
Before the September election the Coalition stated it would honour all school funding arrangements reached with states, territories and education sectors for four years.
“Just before the election the government stated it is not an situation, it’s a unity ticket, no daylight among Liberal and Labor,” Shorten stated.
“Now we see the Coalition government saying, ‘Well, actually we do not mean what we explained then, and that we’re reopening agreements, we’re reopening bargains with state governments, we’re reopening bargains with the Catholic education method in Australia.”
NSW warns Christopher Pyne to honour Gonski school funding deal
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