Public schools face a real cut of over $670 million a year unless the Federal Government substantially lifts its investment in public education, argues this report. This report finds that: Public schools will receive $673 million less in real terms in 2015/16 than they did in the last financial year (2011/12). That is a 12...

There is a lot at stake over the next few months in the countdown to the Gonski panel's final advice on schools funding. That advice, and the Government’s response, could determine the long-term future of schooling across Australia and, in particular, the nature and quality of public schooling in this country. The purpose of this...

The author argues that an “unfair and dysfunctional” funding system put in place by the Howard government that should be scrapped. The report also finds that: • by the end of the current schools funding agreement in 2012/13, private schools will have received $47 billion and public schools $35 billion from the Rudd Government for...

This paper examines the Rudd Government’s funding decisions for schools since the May 2008 Budget and the analysis in the author's earlier report Reviewing the evidence: Issues in Commonwealth funding of government and non-government schools in the Howard and Rudd years (August, 2008). It does so by examining the funding allocations for schools made through...

Federal government public school funding will be cut real terms within three years based on current budget projections, according to this report, which recommends an immediate investment of at least $1.5 billion to restore federal funding to 1996 levels in order to ensure equality of opportunity. The paper puts forward two suggestions for increasing Commonwealth...