I would go further than Christopher Pyne and say that Angelo Gavrielatos and the AEU are being deliberately misleading. They know full well that the comparison they have made is invalid because the extra $10 billion offered by Labor is not being offered evenly over the next 6 years at all. Information from the current Labor government shows that the fraction of the $10 billion offered each year begins as a small percentage and then increases markedly towards the end of the 6 years. It is far from being a straight line comparison. What would be more to the point is a comparison of what Labor proposes over the next four years with what the Coalition offers, but Christopher Pyne has already answered that!
It is the 4 year comparison (disguised as “the forward estimates”) that Mr Pyne refers to in saying there is no dollar difference. The fact remains that the Gosnksi education spending is largely over years 5 and 6 which the coalition will NOT match. So the AEU claim is correct.
I would go further than Christopher Pyne and say that Angelo Gavrielatos and the AEU are being deliberately misleading. They know full well that the comparison they have made is invalid because the extra $10 billion offered by Labor is not being offered evenly over the next 6 years at all. Information from the current Labor government shows that the fraction of the $10 billion offered each year begins as a small percentage and then increases markedly towards the end of the 6 years. It is far from being a straight line comparison. What would be more to the point is a comparison of what Labor proposes over the next four years with what the Coalition offers, but Christopher Pyne has already answered that!
It is the 4 year comparison (disguised as “the forward estimates”) that Mr Pyne refers to in saying there is no dollar difference. The fact remains that the Gosnksi education spending is largely over years 5 and 6 which the coalition will NOT match. So the AEU claim is correct.