I t turns out that while you can still breed a prime minister, it’s becoming a lot cheaper to do so. Of the past 10 national leaders, six of them have gone to state schools or relatively cheap Catholic schools.
That’s a significant change given that of the 26 Australian educated prime ministers, 16 went to one of the 383 private schools, while only 10 came from the country’s 1059 state schools.
Andrew HobbsContributorAndrew Hobbs is an online editor and contributor. He has been a financial journalist for more than 25 years, working previously at Bloomberg and Australian Associated Press.
