This paper argues that the new method of determining Commonwealth government funding of private schools is littered with flaws.

In Victoria, almost 64 per cent of students are educated in a government school. The Student Resource Package’s (SRP) objectives include improving the targeting of resources by aligning them to student learning needs. This audit examines if the Department of Education and Training accurately allocates SRP funds to Victorian government schools.

This paper looks at funding flows from the Australian and Victorian governments to government and non-government schools.

The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim.

Only fifteen minutes from Parliament House, four Canberra schools reveal the growing segregation in Australian education — and how government policy is at its heart.