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New board appointments: David Borger, Bob Debus, Cathy Foley and Bob Carr.

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.

  • Linda Morris

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About 40 per cent of Australian enrolments are in non-government schools.

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.

  • David Hastie
Corrie Perkin in Sorrento.

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.

  • Stephen Brook
Private schoolgirls

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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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.

  • Sherryn Groch
Victorian students went back to school this week.

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 Minister Jason Clare.

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.

  • Sherryn Groch and Robyn Grace
In Australia, the states are meant to cover 80 per cent of public school funding and 20 per cent of Catholic and private.

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.

  • Sherryn Groch
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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.

UNSW chancellor David Gonski says the Perrottet government’s election promise of a kids’ future fund is a good idea.

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.

  • Michael Koziol

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