Jean Ely and Dale Bridge

DOGS

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The Australian Council for the Defence of Government Schools (DOGS) looks at public education and separation of church and state.

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Jean Ely and Dale Bridge

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Freedom OF and FROM religion 28.04.2018

Freedom of and from religion and the dissenting opinion from Justice murphy, the tragedy of our TAFE system, rorting by tax file number. Great State school of the Week- Murrayvilee community collegewww.adogs.info

Funding debates proving that the DOGS position is UNASSAILABLE. 21.04.2018

Funding debates proving that the DOGS position is UNASSAILABLE. The needs policy has been a failure again and again. Australia's education system is slipping behind the rest of the world at a rapidly increasing rate. The Commonwealth's role is the primary public funder of public schools yet private schools have the top funding priority to the government.www.adogs.info

Catholic church political phone blitz of Batman electorate and much more 14.04.2018

The Catholic church phone blitzed the Batman electorate to ensure that labour won the seat- why and who paid for all these "robo-calls". Catholic church is still desperately trying to make itself a player in australian politics. There is now a mopuntain of evidence that shows increased funding for low-income and other disadvantaged students improves results. Great State Schools of the week is Mern...

DOGS 07.04.2018

Our government is actively separating children on the basis of their parents income and faith- social segregation akin to apartheid. Significant increase in social segregation for the last 40 years- right about when we started pouring money into the private schools sector. Great state school of the week - Doveton collegewww.adogs.info

The history of state funding and the creation of the DOGS 31.03.2018

The history of the parallel catholic education system, how state funding of private schools originated and the "Goulburn Strike" that started it all. This week's great state school is Footscray West Primarywww.adogs.info

A Song For Simon Birmingham- La Mama Production 24.03.2018

This week Cameron Siever and Claire Nicholls from La Mama present excerpts from their current production A Song for Simon Birmingham- A Lifestyle Choicewww.adogs.info

Australia is desperately trying to build it's own aristocracy with YOUR tax dollars 17.03.2018

Australia is desperately trying to build it's own aristocracy with YOUR tax dollars. Funding allocations to Catholic schools is DELIBERATELY opaque with its own completely separate bureacracy. Virue signalling. The Chaplaincy program rears its pointless, out-dates, wasteful, exclusive, counter-intuitive and ILLEGAL head yet again. State School of the week- Glenhuntly Primary

The big secret about the cost of education 10.03.2018

In Australia, we DON'T have freedom from religion, the big secret- spending any more than $14000 per year, per child on education is going to waste. Public schools achieve BETTER results than private schools. it is a fallacy that private schools out-perform public schools with siumilar socio-economic ratings.

Ruddock inquiry into religion and state plus much more 03.03.2018

More on the Ruddock inquiry into religion and the state, Matthew Guy's plan to pump up parochial nationalism with a daily pledge of allegience a la USA, an authoritarian approach to problematic schools with a police presence! Great State School of the Week is Bentley Secondary Collegewww.adogs.info

State needs policy becomes a PRIVATE GREEDS policy 24.02.2018

State needs policy becomes a PRIVATE GREEDS policy, which way will Gonski jump? Education in Australia is a national scandal. Every single public school in NSW is only recieving 90% of its required funding, while the private schools recieve 107%.

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DOGS 23.12.2017

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