Our public system, the inheritance of both our children and our democracy, is the victim of false advertising. Idealogues,con artists and spin doctors are controlling the future of our public systems.
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PETITION FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
The battle for public education - free, secular and universal - is being fought in Chile by teachers and students. They are winning. Their example is an inspiration for supporters of public education in Australia.
The current policies of the Pyne/Nixon education ministers promise to impose a Chilean style voucher system on Australia – at the same time that Chile is fighting its way out of this grossly inequitable system.
Chilean education suffered grievously under Pinochet’s market oriented policies The dictator imposed the market ideology on Chilean education. In the same way our Lib/Labor politicians have imposed the Thatcher/ Reagan market ideology on education in this country.
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
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WHO IS RICHARD BOLT, SECRETARY OF THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
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KEVIN DONNELLY AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:
TAKING PUBLIC EDUCATION BACK TO THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEM
AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL FOR THE DEFENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
PRESS RELEASE 559#
VICTORIA OPEN FOR BUSINESS: PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SALE
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THE CHAPLAINCY CASE: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
Supporters of Public Education are facing an all-out attack on their education systems. How are they reacting?
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TAXATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
5 June 2014
David Hastie promotes denominationalism as an Australian ideological sprawl in which any and every religion and religious school flourish at taxpayers expense. He accuses Marion Maddox of ‘Big Secularism’—the ‘determination to ban government support for religious activities’.
If so, she is in illustrious company: Thomas Jefferson and Founding Fathers of the American Constitution; Andrew Inglis Clark, major draftsman of the Australian Constitution; Henry Bournes Higgins and Founding Fathers who placed Section 116 in the Australian Constitution;[i] and Justice Lionel Murphy, dissenter in the 1981 DOGS case. Some might say, Christ himself.[ii]