Before State Aid was introduced again in the Twentieth Century, the opponents of State Aid declared that "public money to private schools encourages division amongst children based on social, economic, class, and particularisms such as colour, country, ethnicity, and creed. It was clearly stated that the increase in State Aid would divide children along the lines of divisions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Children have been divided by colour and within colour.
The following table illustrates, by studying the number and type of Church schools that were in existence in 1964 and then in 1985 and finally 1999 this ongoing division in our community:
NUMBER AND TYPE OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS FUNDED TO DIVIDE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN
| TYPE OF PRIVATE SCHOOL |
1964 |
1985 |
1999 |
| Classified Denominational (1964) | |||
| Baptist |
5 |
34 |
37 |
| C of E/Anglican |
122 |
102 |
121 |
| Hebrew/Jewish |
10 |
16 |
17 |
| Lutheran |
28 |
63 |
80 |
| Methodist/Uniting |
27 |
39 |
42 |
| Presbyterian |
39 |
10 |
13 |
| Roman Catholic |
1827 |
1683 |
1684 |
| Seventh Day Adventist |
44 |
78 |
60 |
| Unclassified (1964) | |||
| Other |
10 |
83 |
63 |
| Undenominational |
93 |
||
| New Classifications | |||
| Ananda Marga |
4 |
||
| Assembly of God |
25 |
||
| Brethren |
9 |
||
| Catholic (other) |
4 |
||
| Christadelphian |
2 |
||
| Christian Schools |
5 |
101 |
|
| Christian Scientist |
1 |
1 | |
| Churches of Christ |
1 |
2 |
|
| Denominational /Inter |
8 |
26 |
|
| Denominational/ Non |
100 |
134 |
|
| Hare Krishna |
1 |
1 |
|
| Montessori |
10 |
27 |
|
| Moslem |
3 |
21 |
|
| Orthodox Greek |
5 |
7 |
|
| Orthodox Other |
4 |
||
| Other Religion |
66 |
6 |
|
| Pentecostal |
22 |
||
| Scientology |
4 |
||
| Steiner |
10 |
40 |
|
| Quaker |
1 |
1 |
|
| TOTAL |
2205 |
2319 |
2558 |