Good morning. Climate policies are front and centre today, with the Greens set to launch its policy, which will push for a new levy on coal exports, and renewed climate brawling continues in the Coalition.
Private schools have received an extra $10bn in “special deals” since 2018, while public schools were underfunded by at least $6.5bn every year, according to a report. The study by education economist Adam Rorris details the legacy of special treatment of private schools including $4.6bn of transitional funding after the Gonski 2.0 reforms and $750m of jobkeeper wage subsidies. Transition arrangements will see non-government schools continue to receive more than 80% of the resourcing standard until 2028. These include Haileybury in Victoria, which will get a total of $25m above that level from 2022 to 2028; Trinity grammar school in NSW with an extra $16.8m; Monte Sant’ Angelo in NSW with $15.3m; and Brisbane grammar school with $13.9m. The AEU federal president, Correna Haythorpe, said the Morrison government had “shamelessly established and consolidated a deep inequity in Australian education, to the detriment of the overwhelming majority of students who attend public schools”.
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