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I first met Phillip Hughes when he was the foundation head of education at the then new Canberra College of Advanced Education that we first met. I was a young mother, returning to study. He was a fine, inspiring leader and teacher in the Diploma of Education programme. He taught me how to start to think about the nature and significance of schools and of the profession of teaching in our society. Over the years, I learned that we had in common a deep commitment to the public school systems in Australia that had given us both opportunities for learning and life chances well beyond the hopes and expectations that a sensible person might have held for us as young children.
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This was produced by the Australian College of Education and the Australian Council for Educational Administration. See Unicorn, Volume 27, Number 2, July 2001.
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Speech: Beyond My School 2.0, Grattan Institute, Melbourne on 17 March 2011 by Peter Garrett AM, Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth.
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Speech of Henry Parkes, M.P., President of the Council of Education entitled The Public Schools Act, on opening the public school at Dundas, on Thursday, September 4, 1869.
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Max Angus in his paper ‘Commonwealth-State Relations and the Funding of Australia’s Schools’ in a report I wrote for the NSW Public Education Alliance in 2007, Making Federalism Work for Schools: Due Process, Transparency and Informed Consent.
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Governments cover the costs of teaching in all public schools, in all Catholic systemic schools and in at least half of all independent schools. Taken together, this means that governments are providing teachers, or the public funding equivalent, in around 95% of all Australian schools.
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As you know, this would be a slightly strengthened version of the provisions of Commonwealth legislation from the time of Whitlam until they were swept away by the Howard Government along with the advisory and consultative structures of the National Board of Employment, Education and Training.
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Connors, L. (2013). Public Education: Its Value Is Beyond Price. In: Hughes, P. (eds) Achieving Quality Education for All. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5294-8_6
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