Julia Gillard, as education minister and then prime minister, identified the Gonski report on school funding, later renamed the Better Schools Plan, as one of her crowning achievements. Backed by the Australian Education Union and Australia’s cultural-left education blob (a term coined by Britain’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove), the argument is that Gonski will deliver excellence and equity in education by massively increasing government expenditure. The Gonski fu…
