Bill
Australian Education Amendment (Save Our Public Schools) Bill 2023
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Allman-Payne
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-09-14
- second reading — 2023-09-14
- second reading — 2024-02-08
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
- Australian Education Amendment (Save Our Public Schools) Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Put the question — 2024-02-08, Senate: negative, ayes 11, noes 26
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-09-14.
The bill would require the federal government to raise its share of funding for government schools to at least 25 percent.
It would change the definition of the Commonwealth share in the Australian Education Act 2013 and add an object stating every school-aged child should have access to a fully funded government school.
The new obligation would apply from the day after the Act receives Royal Assent.
- Redefines the Commonwealth share for government schools to 25 percent or higher.
- Inserts a new object into the Act about access to fully funded government schools.
- Requires the federal education Minister to ensure funding determinations are consistent with that object.
The federal government, state and territory governments, and students at government schools.
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