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The Institute of Public Affairs examines education policy from the principle that competition and choice is as effective at ensuring quality as it is in other Australian sectors. In primary, secondary and tertiary education, the need for the application of these principles is clear.
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Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
National curriculum: Labor's big failure
Less than two months after the Rudd government took power, education minister Julia Gillard announced her national curriculum, and announced it...
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...
Unmaking history
March may seem a little early to give an award for 2011 's silliest contribution to public debate in Australia, but surely, Monash University...
National Curriculum gets our history badly wrong
Julia Gillard began the development and implementation of the national curriculum as minister for education in the somewhat happier days of the...
Christianity has role in learning
The draft national curriculum for history opened an exciting prospect. Here was a chance, I thought, to defend the honour of Christianity amid the...
Publications
Education and federalism: the last line of defence
One of federalism's great virtues is that it provides a means to smaller government. Demarcated power limits the spending excesses of individual governments and provides a check to overarching state authority. The politics of Australian federalism...
New South Wales should scrap national curriculum, not delay it
The free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs today welcomed the decision of the O'Farrell government to delay implementing the Gillard government's national curriculum until 2013. 'This delay is welcome. But the O'Farrell...
A Letter to Peter Garrett
A letter to federal Education Minister Peter Garrett.
