Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne's promise to overhaul Gonski has become a lightning rod for conflict between the Abbott Government and the States. But his critics argue that clawing back the Gonski reforms would see the return of the deep inequities of the SES scheme implemented by the Howard government. But what impact might any...

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.