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The Institute of Public Affairs examines education policy from the principle that competition and choice is as effective at ensuring quality as it is in other Australian sectors. In primary, secondary and tertiary education, the need for the application of these principles is clear.
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Gonski report too narrowly focused
With speculation that the Gillard government will soon release a formal policy response to the Gonski school funding review, the education funding...
Old-school ideas not on the money
The Gonski report on school funding follows in the path of every other government report on schooling of the past 40 years. It identifies the...
Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
National curriculum: Labor's big failure
Less than two months after the Rudd government took power, education minister Julia Gillard announced her national curriculum, and announced it...
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...
Unmaking history
March may seem a little early to give an award for 2011 's silliest contribution to public debate in Australia, but surely, Monash University...
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The market works
‘If you are offered free fruit and vegetables at the market, you know they will be rotten. If you want fresh produce, then you have to pay for it.' This observation from a Kenyan mother describes in a nutshell why millions of parents in...
Gonski school funding review risks undermining school choice
The recommendations of the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling released today by the federal government entail great risks for school choice and private investment in education, according to the free market think tank the Institute of Public...
Education and federalism: the last line of defence
One of federalism's great virtues is that it provides a means to smaller government. Demarcated power limits the spending excesses of individual governments and provides a check to overarching state authority. The politics of Australian federalism...
