Mr LEE (2:25 PM) —My question is addressed to the Prime Minister and it refers to the Prime Minister's claims that his new school funding system was designed to benefit low fee private schools in Western Sydney. Prime Minister, is it correct that the King's School in Parramatta, with its sporting fields, swimming pool and indoor rifle range, gets an extra $1,351 per pupil per year under your new funding system? Prime Minister, is it also correct that the Thomas Hassall Anglican College at Hoxton Park, which you have referred to, gets only an extra $458 per pupil per year under your new funding system? Prime Minister, if you say you are so committed to low fee private schools in Western Sydney, why does your new funding system give the King's School three times the increase that it gives to Thomas Hassel Anglican College, the sort of school you claim to care about?

Mr HOWARD (Prime Minister) —The Thomas Hassall Anglican College has in fact been opened after the changes to the new schools policy—which you opposed.