Queensland wants the Federal Government to meet it halfway on the Gonski reforms Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek, pictured at Parliament House yesterday, said Gonski didn't suit Queensland. EDUCATION Minister John-Paul Langbroek has called on the Federal Government to meet him halfway as the Gonski debate rages on. Mr Langbroek said the "megaphone diplomacy" that the Prime Minister had used to announce her education reforms was not suited to Queensland schools. "I thought it would be in the Prime Minister's best interests to meet us halfway - we're not the ones with an election coming up," he said yesterday. There's been no consideration for the special factors that affect Queensland. He said his department had been forced to "work backwards" from the complex numbers provided to the Newman Government. Mr Langbroek said the traditional 50:50 funding had changed to 30:70, making it unsustainable for the state. "We're going to negotiate more money for our state but not at a cost, we don't have the resources to borrow more money for Queensland," Mr Langbroek said. He said the Premier's education plan was more suited to the diversity of the state and would not help pay for the its recently announced plans to introduce Saturday detention for unruly students. "We don't want to have a replication of red tape and bureaucracy," he said. But Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Newman Government had not given enough attention to the Gonski reforms and instead was busy with its recently announced policy on Saturday detention for unruly students. "Instead of talking about how unruly our students are, John-Paul Langbroek and the Government should be talking about Gonski," Ms Palaszczuk said. If they were serious about it, John-Paul Langbroek would be down in Canberra today talking to the Prime Minister and getting a better deal for our schools.