Federal education minister Simon Birmingham unwittingly set off yet another round of class warfare last week when he conceded on Q&A that some private schools were "over funded". Hey, you can't say he didn't play to his audience! Next the Red Cross will tell the annual vampires' convention its security guards at the blood bank are out on strike.

Cue myriad stories about which schools get how much and why it's unfair and which are on the government's non-existent "hit list", and so forth.