Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull took a victory lap after winning the lengthy battle to pass the government's AU$23.5 Billion Gonski 2.0 model through parliament, a major reform in federal schools funding.

"For the first time that which has always been aspired to but never achieved has been achieved: national, consistent, needs-based funding right across the country," Mr. Turnbull said before reporters in Canberra on Friday.  "Now that we've got the funding model right, the next step is to make sure we get the great educational outcomes."

The government got support in the Senate from the Nick Xenophon Team, One Nation, and crossbenchers Jacqui Lambie, Derryn Hinch, and Lucy Gichuhi.  Labor and the Greens opposed it, although the Greens succeeded in inserting an amendment to give the newly created national school resource body greater independence and powers to begin inquiries of its own motion.

The deal replaces 27 different school funding arrangements in the states with a more consistent national standard.  But it also requires state governments to give their public schools 75 percent of the school resource standard by 2023.  Tasmania, ACT, and Western Australia already meet or exceed this standard.  But Victoria will be hard hit, currently giving only 66.15 percent of the SRS to its public schools.  VIC is followed by Northern Territory at 67.18 percent, New South Wales at 71.44 percent, South Australia at 72.02 percent, and Queensland at 73.3 percent.

Victoria's education minister James Merlino said it was "astounding" that PM Turnbull showed "sheer arrogance" to pass the bill without inputs from the states.

Bypassing the states was "intrinsically unfair", according to Queensland Education Minister Kate Jones.  "It dictates from Canberra that Queensland has to increase its contribution to state schools yet walks away from the original Labor position where the federal government would work with states to get to the student resourcing standard where states contribute two thirds and the commonwealth one third," she said.  "Queensland taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill."