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Private education providers targeting specifically overseas students and charging exorbitant rates for meaningless qualifications have reached the end of their halycon days of rorts, backdoor passports and nest feathering.www.adogs.info

Successive governments have expected and welcomed massive population growth and all the repercussions of that growth. So why then, for the first time in 15 years, will there be no more Victorian State Scools built?www.adogs.info

DOGS press release, Max Wallace's article - Religion's Dying Swan Act, separation of church and state and a large scale survey on morality.www.adogs.info

Happy 40th Birthday 3cr! Take over the private schools and make them public- The public pay for them, they should be able to use them! www.adogs.info

The 'holiday' period has, in the past, been used by politicians to slyly slip unpopular policy decisions into practice without the public paying too much attention. This year is no different with Mr Turnbull confirming that the final 2 years of the Gonski funding will NOT be honoured.www.adogs.info

Despite a wealth of positive examples of effective and successful public education systems from Scandinavian countries, Canadian provinces and South American countries, Australia seems wedded to the idea of making the same mistakes that the United States and Britain have made- ransoming education to the private sector.www.adogs.info

Saving our public schools in a neo-conservative climate. www.adogs.info

Ravenswood Captain Sarah Haynes went off script to tell it like it is, to the chagrin of the school board. She wrote two versions- one for the school 'censors' and one she truly wished to read. Surface versus substancewww.adogs.info

VET fiasco, the provision of education is not a marketplace. The education of the children of this nation is too important to debase with economic rationalism.www.adogs.info

The Australian Council for the Defense of Government Schools Press Release #629 plus bungled funding figures addressed.www.adogs.info

Our children's birthright should not be the plaything of market theocratists. States at mercy of Federal Government's maket theocracy. Australia is the only country to ransom its educational future. www.adogs.info

Worn out privatisation rhetoric spewing forth from the new minister.  How many poor public schools has Birmingham ever visited?  The DOGS have never unquestioningly supported Gonski as it is really a form of voucher system. www.adogs.info

Tax-paying parents are NOT entitled to but are OWED State Schools that deliver a first-rate education that is offensive to none. State schools should be owned and controlled by the public and be publicly accountable ergo they are the only ones that should be publicly funded.

Analysis of education policy issues. Free market capitalist and the education system do not mix. Where a natural monopoly exists, it should be run by and for the public, and overseen by the people.www.adogs.info

Marketeerers profiting from Education,  State-sanctioned Religious discrimination. What happens in Australia, almost uniquely worldwide, is that when tax payers money goes to religious institutions, there is NO oversight of that money. All religiously based private schools in Australia is free from the Anti-Discrimination Act. For Dennis Hart, the Enlightenment NEVER HAPPENED. www.adogs.info

Information on Simon Birmingham and Australia's VET systemwww.adogs.info

Birmingham may indulge in softer rhetoric but there's no evidence of commitment to anything other the tired old Liberal market ideology. He has stated that he will be "true the the values" of the Liberal party's policy on Education.www.adogs.info

DOGS do not expect any change from the new Turnbull Government. His experience of schools for the common good rather than private priilege is extremely limited. www.adogs.info

The Australian education system and a comparison with Chile. The privatisation of the school system in Chile got so out of hand that in 2013, the re-publicisation of  education became an election issue and saw a process of deep transformation to the education system occur with the banning of tuition fees, profit-making and selective admission practices  in all private / religious schools that rece...

Rob chats with Peter Kaliakoudis and Max Wallace Vice President of Rationalists Association of New South Wales about what we can learn from Greece and the relationship that the Greek Orthodox Church has with the State.www.adogs.info

A win for FIRIS sees Special Religious Instruction programs re4moved from class time. www.adogs.info

We cover an interesting article about choice and entitlement and education policy by David Zyngier (from Monash University, actively involved in FIRIS)Access Ministries have moved up to New South Wales and in response FIRIS have put up a billboard in Liverpool challenging some of the instruction given during the Special Religious Instruction classes, provoking some very unChristian responses.www.a...

We look at an interesting article by David Zyngier, from Monash who has actively been involved in the Fairness In Religion Campaign.www.adogs.info

Is Australia intent on following the social stratification of the United Kingdom? Are we being dragged back into a top-down society with little hope of social mobility for the children of the poor?www.adogs.info

State Aid to Independent and Religious Schools is bad social policy and economic stupidity.www.adogs.info