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An inquisition into Australia’s great school funding rort
The challenge now is remedial action to help the disadvantaged and other low-performing students that ‘giving a Gonski’ has left behind.
Labor should be careful about making a federal integrity commission retrospective, because the first inquisition should be into Australia’s great school funding rort.
During the 2007 election, public sector teachers’ unions waged a highly political campaign against the Coalition’s funding of private schools, under the rubric of taking from the “rich” to better educate poorer children, that helped elect the Rudd Labor government.
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