Ms GILLARD (Lalor—Prime Minister) (14:32): I can give you a very specific answer to that. It has got to do with state Liberal cutbacks to education, because of the way in which indexation works for Australian schools. The fact that the opposition frontbench and backbench are tossing their heads at this shows a decade of indifference when they were in government and have never bothered once to understand how schools are funded. The Leader of the Opposition runs out the door and says that he stands behind this broken model of school funding. Premier O'Farrell said that it is a broken model. He has never understood the details of it. The Leader of the Opposition ought to try to understand. Mrs Bronwyn Bishop: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. To be directly relevant the Prime Minister must explain why she is not admitting the cuts that she is making— The SPEAKER: The member for Mackellar will resume her seat! Mrs Bronwyn Bishop: and for once can she accept responsibility for her own policies? The SPEAKER: As predicted, she did abuse the standing orders. There is no use of debate during a point of order. The Prime Minister has the call. Ms GILLARD: And in that alleged point of order the member misled the House. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Prime Minister will resume her seat. The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The Prime Minister will withdraw. Mr Abbott interjecting— The SPEAKER: The Leader of the Opposition will not tell me how to do my job! The Prime Minister will withdraw. There are other forms of the House if she wishes to pursue the issue she raised. Mr Albanese: On the point of order, Speaker, with respect: the Prime Minister indicated that the member for Mackellar had misled the House. She did not use the term 'deliberately misled', which is what would be inappropriate and unparliamentary and would require a substantive motion. Mr Randall interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Canning will leave the chamber under standing order 94(a). The member for Canning then left the chamber . The SPEAKER: The silence was to give me some time to prepare a reasonable response. I would have thought that in the circumstances that was warranted. But obviously any adherence to the standing orders by anybody in this place is not. I will ask the Prime Minister to withdraw. I do understand completely what the Leader of the House has said but, given the circumstances, I am going to ask her to withdraw for the benefit of the parliament. Ms GILLARD: Speaker, I withdraw. Let me continue with what I was saying before, because the opposition clearly does not understand the school funding system that they stand behind—the broken funding system. The indexation rates in that broken funding system are a function of what state governments are investing in education. So if state Liberal governments are cutting, it cuts the indexation rate. That means what the Leader of the Opposition stands for is state cutbacks that then equal federal cutbacks. He is already on record as wanting to rip billions of dollars out of our schools. What he has got is an agenda of cuts and harm for Australian schools. He does not believe in their future. He will not dissuade us from getting on with the job. (Time expired)