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Arts
Who’s in, who’s out as Labor figures head cultural leadership shake-up
ALP veterans head a list of 10 new prestigious appointments to the state’s leading galleries and museums.
- by Linda Morris
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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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CBD
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
Editorial
Education
State input on schools funding doesn’t add up
The states are the primary funders and administrators of a chronically neglected, under-funded state school sector.
- The Age's View
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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
To end ‘division’, private schools should share their facilities
Readers react to increased taxes on private schools; the waning popularity of the voice; and traffic congestion.
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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
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