Doorstop interview, Canberra

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: Delivering real needs-based funding for schools and fixing Labor’s model 23/05/2017 07:30AM Simon Birmingham:                  …representatives will commence debate on the Turnbull Government’s implementation of true Gonski-based, needs-based funding for Australian schools. We’re putting in $18.6 billion extra to fix the funding…

Labor turns its back on Gonski

The Labor Party has abandoned needs-based funding and the principles of the Gonski Review that they lauded until it was no longer politically expedient.   I am disappointed but not surprised that Bill Shorten and Tanya Plibersek have chosen to play politics with this issue rather than to back the 9,000 schools that stand to…