Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek says Queensland is standing firm over Gonski reforms QUEENSLAND Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek says he is open to negotiating with his new federal counterpart Bill Shorten on the Gonski reforms but the government is standing firm on its demands. "I've dealt with now, this will be my fourth training minister over last couple of months and of course another education minister," Mr Langbroek said. We just have to see what pans out. We are of course happy to sit down with them. We've got to get the best deal for Queensland and make sure that our students and teachers and are best represented by the deal that we sign up for. Mr Langbroek said he had met with Mr Shorten and would be interested to work with him but denied the change of Prime Minister would prove a negotiation "circuit-breaker." "We'll be looking for the best deal for Queensland following along with the things we said from the start which is no school is worse off, no loss of funding for unis and kindies, and we don't want a replication or extension of federal bureaucracy into an area that we run," Mr Langbroek said. Even the Prime Minister himself has said there's no great room for changing much about the negotiations so I don't have any great hope that we are going to see any of those issues that we have been concerned about being addressed.