AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 812
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL:
PRESS CLUB DEBATE ETC.
A secular State should have no dealings whatever with religion and religious organisations that take the Queen’s shilling do so at their peril. Our forefathers understood this when Section 116 was placed in the Australian Constitution.
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 811
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL:
A DOGS BREAKFAST THAT PLEASES NO-ONE?
The Religious Discrimination Bill Pleases no-one? But then, how could it?
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 810
WILL AUSTRALIA FOLLOW THE UK
IF JEREMY CORBYN’S LABOR GOVERNMENT IS ELECTED?
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 809
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL:
HINDU COUNCIL DEMANDS
PUBLICLY FUNDED RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS DO LIKWISE !
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 808
ALP SELLS PUBLIC EDUCATION OUT
TO RELIGIOUS INTERESTS –
AGAIN
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 807
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL
CHURCHES SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHAT THEY WISH FOR
DOGS ARE IN BROAD AGREEMENT WITH THE FOLLOWING PRESS RELEASE FROM THE RATIONALIST ASSN OF NSW:
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 806
SHEPPARTON MEGA-SCHOOL:
APPLY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES OF SCALE
TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Financial analysts have discovered the MYSCHOOL website is a gift that keeps on giving – evidence of gross and ridiculous inequities in education funding.
The MYSCHOOL website, rather than the Gonski ‘Needs” enquiry, is the most valuable inheritance from the Julia Gillard government.
The gross inequities between direct per capita grants to private rather than public schools has been well documented by Trevor Cobbold of Save Our Schools at http://saveourschools.com.au/
The taxpayer is now subsidising some private schools at more than 100% of requisite running costs.
Take them over? But what about their real estate?
Well, now the figures are indicating that taxpayers are paying for that also. So, as the funding and social - but not the educational divide- becomes ever wider, is it time to just – take the private schools over?
The State Aid policy has proved to be a socially divisive, expensive failure.
The time has come for action !
nother Mass shooting in America, this time in El Paso, Texas – in a crowded Walmart store. Another terrorist. A few more Trumpian tweets, avoiding the gun lobby issue.
Diane Ravitch and other American educators have joined a few dots. It leads one to ask questions of wealthy corporations who sell guns, ban unions and bankroll ‘for profit ‘charter schools’.
Their analysis underlines the dangers inherent in the privatisation of public education.
The closure of the Presentation College Windsor, which allegedly enrolled 700 girls in years 7-12 ,( the actual figure was 466) was given oxygen by the Age on 30 July 2019. This closure opens up issues of Church/State entanglement especially when $1 million for renovations went AWOL.