Press Releases

So-Called Independent Public Schools Can Become 'Captured Schools'.

Press Release 550

The Federal Minister for Education, Mr Pyne, should do research on what has happened to Mr Gove’s ‘Free” State Schools in the UK before he repeats the grave mistake in Australia.
Independent Public Schools, are another name for schools put into the market place for privatisation - ripe for ‘capture’ by any and every religious group.
In Birmingham, evidence is mounting that Muslim hardliners have attempted to take over of up to twenty five Birmingham schools.

Tony Abbott Attacks Struggling Parents as well as Disadvantaged Children

Press Release 549

AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

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Catholic Church Abuse Claims to be Paid from Interest of $6.3 Billion State Aid

Press Release 548

he Guardian ( Australia) and the Australian Newspaper have revealed some insight into an ongoing national scandal: the enormous wealth of the Australian Catholic Church and the complete lack of accountability for the billions of dollars of taxpayer funds with which this institution is endowed.

American Church Schools Want Taxpayer Funding: WIll they be Successful?

Press Release 547

AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

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Only Public Systems of Education Provide Equity: All Public Schools are Good Schools (19.03.2014)

Press Release 546

AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

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High Court Challenge to Chaplains in Public Schools Back in High Court (13.03.2014)

Press Release 545

AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

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Public Education Withers without a Committed Central Administration

Press Release 544

Why did Australia’s Public Education systems centralise
in the first place? The answer brings a bit of basic common sense
into the current debate.

Public Education Withers without a Committed Central Administration

Press Release 544

Why did Australia’s Public Education systems centralise
in the first place? The answer brings a bit of basic common sense
into the current debate.

Taking God to School: The End of Egalitarian Education

Press Release 543

This is the title of a book recently published by Marion Maddox , the professor of Politics at Macquarie University. It is available at Embiggen Book Shop in Melbourne. It represents a realisation by the Sydney elite that perhaps the DOGS have been right all along. You can have a Denominational or a public system funded by the State. You cannot have both. With a State funded Denominational system you certainly cannot have separation of religion and the state.

Taxpayers Pay Murdoch Nearly $900m. How many Schools Would that Build? (22.02.2-14

Press Release 542

The single largest factor in the underlying deterioration of the federal budget announced by Treasurer Joe Hockey in December was a cash payout of almost $900 million to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

http://www.afr.com/p/business/marketing_media/news_corp_blew_the_budget_...

The Abbott Government moralises at Australian citizens that their Age of Entitlement is over. Yet it seems that this end of entitlement excludes wealthy billionaires like Rupert Murdoch who are entitled to minimise their tax.