Forget the hardy outdoor image, we're really a bunch of wowsers
George Bernard Shaw is credited with saying that “Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language”.
In the same breezy vein let’s explore the idea that Australia and the United States are two nations divided by a common democracy
Forget the hardy outdoor image, we're really a bunch of wowsers
CHRIS BONNOR. Rich school, poor school
This week the ABC kicked open the door to an overdue debate about school funding – a debate claimed to have been settled by Malcolm Turnbull two years ago. In a stunninginteractive report on its website, Inga Ting and her team at the ABC unpacked and presented a disturbing picture of the capital funding of schools. Even if you aren’t infected by the politics of envy, just running your cursor down the list of schools might make you pause. Half of the $22 billion spend on capital projects in Australian schools between 2013 and 2017 was spent in just 10 percent of schools.