Queensland joins other states by signing deal with commonwealth to fully fund public schools by 2034
The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, is with the PM and has welcomed the agreement that gives an extra $2.8bn to the state’s public schools to 2034.
Crisafulli says this will bring generational reform, and highlights the challenges Queensland has in its schooling system.
It is a historic agreement … This means a lot to Queensland, and it means a lot because we’ve got some challenges in our schooling systems that other states don’t have. We are the most decentralized state. We’ve got a large portion of rural and regional and Indigenous schools.
He says the agreement was an opportunity “too good to miss”.
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Crisafulli says this will bring generational reform, and highlights the challenges Queensland has in its schooling system.
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It is a historic agreement … This means a lot to Queensland, and it means a lot because we’ve got some challenges in our schooling systems that other states don’t have. We are the most decentralized state. We’ve got a large portion of rural and regional and Indigenous schools.
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He says the agreement was an opportunity “too good to miss”.
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A little earlier, the independent senator David Pocock was on ABC News Breakfast, calling for gas to be diverted to the domestic market to keep energy prices from soaring.
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He said there was a “gas export problem” in Australia that was driving up prices, and diverting it would address the predicted domestic shortfall.
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We don’t have a gas supply shortage, we have a gas export problem in Australia … I’m calling for uncontracted gas [to be] diverted to the domestic market until that [shortfall] is fully met.
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Asked about whether the $150 rebate was appropriate or whether that money should go instead to electrifying households, Pocock said it was “welcome” but described it as a “Band-Aid” solution.
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We’re just putting Band-Aids on when we could be dealing with the root cause here. [It’s] 150 bucks versus thousands of dollars of savings if you could help households electrify.
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The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has followed Katy Gallagher in the RN Breakfast studio.
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Asked why the Coalition has also committed to the $150 energy bill rebate when they’ve previously called it a “sugar hit”, Littleproud says it’s because “people are going broke”.
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Littleproud says the opposition will bring down energy prices by bringing more gas into the system before their nuclear plants are built and come online.
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Our short term solution is more gas, and you can do that in 12 to 18 months. You can get that pressure into the grid. In the medium term, it’s about transitioning into nuclear energy.
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Littleproud’s also asked about reports the Coalition would fast-track approvals for energy projects, and how exactly they would do that.
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We’re going to make sure that we streamline the bureaucracy to be able to achieve that [fast-tracking] and make sure that we can cut down those times, because that gives investment confidence.
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As to how that bureaucracy will be streamlined … well, we might have to wait a bit longer for those details.
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Good morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you for this budget week that many people didn’t think we would get.
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We’re about 30 seconds away from the election being called, and you can feel it in the air. The politicians are buzzing around parliament house, there’s $150 on offer for your energy bills (that is not an “election bribe”, says the government), and there are political fundraisers as far as the eye can see.
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We’re talking about everything this morning from energy to work from home, and of course the economy, which is facing deficits over the next decade.
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So buckle up, it’s going to be a big one!
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Three-quarters of Australians support a total ban on gambling advertising to be phased in over three years as recommended by a bipartisan parliamentary review, according to polling of 2,000 people by The Australia Institute.
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The survey, which has a 2.2% margin of error, found 87% of respondents supported banning gambling ads during primetime broadcasting hours for family and children.
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The federal government is yet to respond to a June 2023 parliamentary inquiry’s recommendation to ban gambling ads due to high levels of community harm. It has faced significant lobbying from sporting codes and broadcasters.
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Martin Thomas, the chief executive of the Alliance for Gambling reform, said the survey results should encourage politicians to take tougher policies to the election:
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It is clear that the vast majority of Australian voters support a total gambling ad ban, and yet the government has sat on its own parliamentary report that recommends such an action for almost two years now …
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With such a powerful move for change highlighted in this polling, it beggars belief that the two major parties are listening more to the gambling lobby and to other vested interests than they are to families across the country who are angry and demanding.
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The finance minister, Katy Gallagher, is in the hot seat this morning, facing the TV and radio interviews ahead of the budget release tomorrow.
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She’s revealed that the government has found an extra $2bn in savings in this budget.
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Gallagher tells ABC News Breakfast a chunk of that is from reducing the number of consultants being hired in the public service.
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A big chunk of it comes through reducing the reliance on contractors and consultants, which is something that we’ve done in each budget … and that’s a big part of the $2.1 billion. But that is in addition to the savings we’ve found before. So across this Government, we’ve found $95 billion worth of savings, which has allowed us to repair the budget.
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Labor is facing a long line of future deficits; asked when the budget will be returned to surplus, Gallagher says:
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Well, that remains to be seen … but every budget that we have done, we have found savings. Our approach has been to look at this carefully and methodically and responsibly to find room to pay for things where we can and to find savings where we can, and over time, that will return the budget to balance.
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Key events
The PM’s taken a stab at the opposition over their position on the electricity bill rebate.
Peter Dutton yesterday called it a “Ponzi scheme” and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has called it a “Band-Aid” fix (yep, more Band-Aids), but they’ve said they’ll support the policy.
Albanese says:
Whether it’s our Medicare tripling of the bulk bill incentive for all Australians, the 50 new urgent care clinics, the $25 for medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, the freezing of the beer excise for two years, or a range of other measures, including the extension of energy bill relief…
The opposition, having opposed all of these things for almost three years, have just said, yes. I guess they’ve got to have something to say about policy, and they don’t have any of their own.
Unsurprisingly, the PM gets a question on when he’ll call the election now that he’s got some momentum… in a shock to no one he says it’ll be “in May”.
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