Research Papers
2024
A decade of inequity: How Australian governments have funded private schools above public schools since 2013
This report details how delay and partial implementation
of the Gonski funding reforms under the Gillard
government, followed by nine years of deliberate
undermining by the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison
governments, have broken the promise made by the
Gonski Review to Australia’s public school students.
Ending the capital funding divide in Australias schools
This report details how for over a decade the Commonwealth government has been derelict in its duty to ensure that students in Australia’s public schools have access to the buildings, and equipment and learning environments they need to thrive
2023
How school funding fails Public Schools : how to change for the better by Adam Rorris
This study looks at the extent to which current school funding agreements can deliver on the needs of all students in Australian schools.
The Australian school teaching workforce: a report based on 2021 ABS census data, prepared for the Australian Education Union by Barbara Preston
Data from the ABS Census can illuminate many aspects of the school teaching workforce that are obscure in the common collections of administrative data. The data and analyses in this report highlight a number of issues that are important for policy in areas such as teachers’ conditions and salaries, workforce planning, and school funding.
2022
Scott Morrison’s record on school funding: $6.5 billion every year in public school neglect & $10 billion in private school cash handouts by Adam Rorris
This report details thirteen critically unfair decisions in respect to school funding that the LNP government (with Scott Morrison as either Treasurer or PM) has made since 2015.
