Mr LEE (12:09 PM) —Let us try to clarify what is a wealthy school. Is the minister aware that at least 39 of the 62 category 1 schools charge school fees of more than $10,000 a year? Does the minister consider a school that charges fees of $10,000 a year a wealthy school? We might be entitled to ask: why shouldn't the fees that are charged by a school in some way be assessed in determining the funding that flows to a school? Let me give him a theoretical example. If the Gold Coast or the Illawarra have a grammar school and a Christian school that cover those areas and the grammar school charges $10,000 a year, the low fee Christian school charges very little each year and the parents live in the same CCDs, then under his formula they would get the same level of federal funding. Surely, minister, you accept that the category 1 schools—with 39 of the 62 charging fees of more than $10,000 a year—are wealthy. How can you claim that those schools have a greater need for scarce dollars in education when there is enormous need in government schools and when there are real needs in Catholic schools? Many of those low fee independent and low fee Christian schools have much greater needs than the category 1 schools that are claiming $10,000 a year. How can you claim that a school that charges fees of $10,000 a year is not wealthy?