Time for me to wrap up. What happened?

the Turnbull government has secured enough support from the crossbench to pass its education funding changes ;

has secured enough to ; this is a big win for the government ;

; the Nick Xenophon Team , One Nation , Derryn Hinch , Jacqui Lambie and Lucy Gichuhi are voting with the government;

, , , and are voting with the government; despite being willing to negotiate the Greens found themselves out in the cold ; and

; and the vote could take place late tonight.

My thanks to Alex Ellinghausen and Andrew Meares for their magnificent work and to you for reading and commenting.

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Alex, Andrew and I will be back in the morning. Until then, good evening.