School choice in Australia depends on three essential conditions: affordability, geographical accessibility and continuous availability. This paper argues the Catholic school system (in partnership with governments) has consistently delivered on all three pre-requisites across generations of families.

Teachers and principals have consistently reported that compliance requirements take precious time away from teaching. Teacher workloads have increased because of this compliance burden. This report addresses this burden and recommends solutions that allow teachers and principals more time to focus on their students.

This Issues Brief explains that decisions about the opening and closing of schools and the school calendar are, for non-government schools, largely left in local hands. This arrangement is the result of over a century of productive dialogue between the government and the non-government school sector.

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

This paper provides an insight into parental perspectives of the current state of school choice and resourcing, based on a survey of Australian parents that reveals the areas of importance to them—and how they and their children could be better served by the education system.