EDUCATION: School funding and the politics of envy*

Prime Minister Gillard, when education minister, argued that school funding was such an important and sensitive issue that there was no place for the old politics of class envy and sectarian divide.
It’s a pity that the federal president of the Australian Education Union, Angelo Gavrielatos, refuses to follow Gillard’s advice. Since the funding review was announced in April last year, the AEU has mounted a strident and vindictive campaign condemning non-government schools, suppo…

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