The Victorian Bracks Labor Government backs elite sports – why not elite studies, asks Kevin Donnelly.If ever there was an example of double standards in politics, then the recent announcement by Victorian Education Minister Lynne Kosky about establishing an elite sports academy in the western suburbs of Melbourne takes the guernsey.Kosky is reported as agreeing to establish a specialist sports school, to be opened in 2007, on the basis that such a school would allow sports-minded students to tr…
