This proposal would increase Commonwealth Government funding to government schools as specified below.  These amounts represent the financial‐year implications of calendar‐year funding. 

This funding would be distributed across government school systems to achieve the following outcomes over the period to the end of the 2022 calendar year.

• The Northern Territory would receive 23.1 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard (SRS) in calendar years 2020 and 2021, increasing to 25.0 per cent in 2022.
• All other states and the Australian Capital Territory would receive identical Commonwealth Government funding as a proportion of the SRS for each jurisdiction in each year.   
  • In the event that equalising shares of the SRS across these jurisdictions would result in a jurisdiction receiving less funding under the proposal than under the baseline in any year, that jurisdiction would receive funding as a share of the SRS equal to its baseline amount for that year.

The proposal would have effect from 1 January 2020.