Emma KEALY (Lowan) (14:36): (1698) My question is to the Minister for Education. The government has begun phasing out the P–12 complexity allowance, a funding stream that recognises the additional administrative and operational challenges faced by combined primary and secondary schools in rural Victoria. In my electorate of Lowan, schools including Balmoral, Edenhope, Goroke, Kaniva, Murtoa, Nhill and Rainbow will be impacted. I spoke to the Goroke P–12 College just a couple of weeks ago, and for their school it is a $200,000 funding cut. This is something that cannot be made up in other areas, and it is an issue where the educators there and the principal feel like they are unable to deliver the education support that they are supposed to and deliver the administrative support. It is something that is having a critical impact on our rural communities. I therefore ask the minister: how much funding will each these schools lose over the forward estimates as a result of the phase-out of the P–12 complexity allowance, and what assessment has the government made of the impact on rural and regional communities?