This report shows how funding has changed and how familiar claims about the relative cost of schools have become obsolete and misleading. It addresses questions that arise about our schools: what is public, what is private, what should be the difference between them, what obligations do and should fully-funded schools have to the public which...

This article argues that neither the Australian Labor nor the Coalition are rising to the challenge posed by Gonski.

Devolution in the context of education, essentially concerns the distribution of power and funding between governments and schools and structural changes in the governance, management and financing of schools. This paper finds there is no evidence that devolution - in its myriad forms - has, in itself, led to improved student achievement.

This report on a review chaired by David Gonski – known as the 'Gonski Review' – is the culmination of the first significant schools funding review since the Whitlam Government.

This paper argues for new institutional arrangements, such as the establishment of a federal schools commission to coordinate school funding.