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The gutting of Gonski

Reforms proposed in 2011 were supposed to make Australia's education funding fairer. The reality has been different 

23 July 2023

  • NSW Students return to school on the first day of term

    Australian public school funding falls behind private schools as states fail to meet targets

  • James Wiggins, the head of Narrabeen sports high school’s P&C

    NSW public schools are in disrepair but capital works funding is failing to materialise

20 July 2023

  • School students on a wall

    Social segregation is the biggest problem facing Australian schools. Can we balance choice and fairness?

    Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor
    Our dual system of schools – some public, free and inclusive, and others private, fee-charging and exclusive – is internationally unique. It doesn’t have to be like this

19 July 2023

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    The Gonski dream: how can governments restore funding – and trust – to public education?

    Experts say Australia’s leaders need to change the narrative on public schools, and make a clear case for funding private ones

18 July 2023

  • A group of high school students walk together during an excursion

    Increased funding has left private schools better able to attract teachers, public principals say

    Funding gap since Gonski review is playing out in hot competition for teachers, federation says
  • Schoolchildren

    Why Australian schools fail those most in need – Full Story podcast

    Guardian Australia reporter Jordyn Beazley outlines how an unfair funding model is entrenching inequality
  • Modified image of school student

    ‘Where is the accountability?’: Indigenous children bear the brunt of Australia’s unequal education system

    In the Northern Territory, the failure to implement the Gonski funding reforms has left students with the fewest resources further disadvantaged

17 July 2023

  • Schoolgirl holding her fathers hand on the way to school<br>Rear view of schoolgirl holding her fathers hand on the way to school. Real people. Copy space

    The parents fleeing Australia’s public school system – and those choosing to stay

    Experts say the shift towards private schooling is part of a broader crisis in the education sector that is creating a growing divide between the haves and have-nots

16 July 2023

  • A girl in school uniform at a desk pictured from behind, with yellow shapes around her

    Private school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after Gonski, data shows

    Exclusive: government funding since landmark education review released ‘has gone to those least in need’, says national convenor of Save Our Schools
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