Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:52): Senator Kitching, honestly! Senator Birmingham announced last week the most fundamental reform of school funding in Australia that we have seen in this nation for many decades. It is a comprehensive package. It restores what your government failed ever to comply with, and that is the principles of the 2011 Gonski report, as Mr David Gonski himself said last week and as Senator Birmingham quoted him in his answer to an earlier question. Senator Kitching, as I said to your colleague Senator Sterle, what is the Labor Party's problem with the principle of equity in funding? The PRESIDENT: Order! Pause the clock. Senator Wong, a point of order. Senator Wong: The point is on direct relevance. One question: what changes does the government intend to make to save its unravelling education package announced only week ago? We have inconsistent quotes from members of the cabinet as to whether or not the package is up for changes. I invite the Leader of the Government in the Senate to be very clear about what the government's position actually is. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the Attorney-General of the question. Senator BRANDIS: I am sorry, Mr President, I thought I had dealt with that in my opening words. But the package, as announced by Senator Birmingham, is the package. It is a complete and comprehensive package, and we are not proposing to make changes to the package. The package is a complete and self-sufficient package, and it has the support of every member of the government. I said a moment ago that this package has been endorsed by Mr Gonski, and I was, by interjection, contradicted by your colleague Senator Jacinta Collins. Let me read you what Mr Gonski had to say at his media conference last week: … I'm very pleased to hear that the Turnbull Government has accepted the fundamental recommendations of our 2011 report— Senator Jacinta Collins interjecting— Senator BRANDIS: Wait for it, Senator Collins— and particularly regarding a needs-based situation. … I'm very pleased that there is substantial additional money, even over indexation and in the foreseeable future. Now, Senator Collins, I know you people in the Labor Party find this very—(Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Kitching, a supplementary question?