David Gonski
Opinion
School funding
Blaming private schools for the underfunding of state schools is nonsense
Australia has far more private schools than most other countries in the OECD, so it is not surprising we spend more money on them.
- by David Hastie
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Upstart writers festival aiming to take Melbourne’s mantle
This week’s Melbourne Writers Festival will hope to capture the same success as the Sorrento Writers Festival held last month.
- by Stephen Brook
Lesson in inequity
Whether it is Scottish castle libraries, plunge pools, executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding, it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.
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Education
The private schools with the richest parents in Australia revealed
About $1.3 billion, or a quarter of all overfunding for private schools, is flowing to those where family income exceeds $200,000 a year. See the schools here.
- by Sherryn Groch
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Education
How one state deal reignited Australia’s school funding wars
States have rejected millions of dollars in extra Commonwealth money for public schools as they push for twice as much cash as WA agreed to.
- by Sherryn Groch and Robyn Grace
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Education
The accounting tricks shortchanging public schools billions of dollars every year
Coalition-era loopholes let the states underfund public schools, leaving them a long way off Gonski minimum standards - and Victoria is one of the worst.
- by Sherryn Groch
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NSW Votes
Gonski endorsed children’s future fund plan and will use it for his grandchildren
UNSW chancellor David Gonski, whom Dominic Perrottet consulted on the scheme before it was finalised, demurred when asked whether it should be means tested.
- by Michael Koziol
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Governance
Company directors can look beyond shareholder interests, says Gonski
The business veteran says corporations have more scope to support community initiatives linked to the company’s purpose, instead of only serving shareholders.
- by Clancy Yeates
‘We won’t be knocking this one down’: Curtain rises on Sydney Modern
Ten years in the vision and three years in the building, all that remains to be completed for the Art Gallery of NSW’s new wing is landscaping, exterior works and internal fit-outs.
- by Linda Morris
‘It was guerrilla warfare’: Inside the fight for the future of the Australian Club
A Machiavellian plan to stop women joining the elite all-male club has led to broken friendships, high-profile resignations and divisions that have rippled across legal, business and political circles.
- by Anne Hyland
‘You can’t take a billion with you to the grave’: Inside the world of Sydney’s power patrons
Meet the philanthropists bankrolling the city’s arts and culture institutions.
- by Linda Morris
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