Prime Minister Julia Gillard will not meet with Queensland Premier Campbell Newman during a two-day trip to the state. Picture: Jamie Hanson Source: The Courier-Mail
JULIA Gillard will snub Queensland premier Campbell Newman on a visit to the state, despite maintaining securing support for her Gonski education reforms is a top priority.
Mr Newman's spokesman told News Limited this morning there were currently no plans for the Prime Minister to talk with or meet with the Queensland Premier during her two day visit to the north.
Ms Gillard is in Rockhampton today to announce a ten year $4.1 billion fund for the Bruce Highway and will tomorrow attend the ANZAC Day dawn service in Townsville.
"There hasn't been anything arranged," a spokesman for Mr Newman said.
"I'm sure he'd be more than happy to meet with her and talk about this."
Ms Gillard had a win yesterday on her multi-billion-dollar education reforms with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell the first to sign up to the measures after last week's Council Of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra failed to secure a deal.
"I certainly think that as a result of the deal with Premier O'Farrell people around the country will be looking to their premiers and chief ministers to do the right thing by the children in their schools," Ms Gillard told ABC radio this morning.
"Premier O'Farrell has shown that it can be done and I want to make sure that these benefits flow right around the country, that we are not leaving any child behind and that every school is getting the resources it needs and improvements."
NSW will get an extra $3.3bn from federal taxpayers as part of the deal.
Western Australia and the Northern Territory, who will get just $195 million under the deal, have said they will not sign up.
The Gonski funding model requires the states to commit to part of the funding boost to schools along with a federal government injection.
Ms Gillard has set a June 30 deadline for state and territory governments to sign up to the deal.
Premier Newman has said he will write to the Prime Minister in coming weeks to outline his terms of agreement for the deal.
He has been openly supportive of more money for schools but is worried about certain aspects of the deal, particularly on kindergartens.
Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and the ACT are still yet to sign up.
Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said with increasing budget deficits Ms Gillard needed to "explain dollar for dollar how all these promises are going to be paid for".
"The government is on a massive spending spree and is not explaining dollar for dollar where the money is coming from," Mr Hockey told Sky News.
"Where is the money coming from? From a money tree in Canberra?"
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