{"id":7670,"date":"2013-06-27T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T22:23:22","slug":"who-gives-a-gonski-for-indigenous-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/06\/who-gives-a-gonski-for-indigenous-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Who gives a Gonski for Indigenous education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Who gives a Gonski for Indigenous Education?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Answer: three Australian states and the Australian Senate which yesterday passed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2013-06-26\/gonski-schools-plan-pass-the-senate\/4782554\">Australian Education Reform bill<\/a>, aka the Gonski plan.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a wonderful achievement. Funding based on children&#8217;s needs.  At last, schools with lots of disadvantaged Indigenous children can get funding by right and not by favour. We owe great thanks to Julia Gillard and Peter Garrett for making this happen.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition doesn&#8217;t give a Gonski in theory, the Labor leadership spillers didn&#8217;t  give a Gonski in practice. Five states and territories haven&#8217;t signed up, violating Paul Keating&#8217;s maxim \u201cNever stand between a premier and a bucket of money\u201d?  Why? Cynicism suggests that they don&#8217;t want to commit to transparent spending of state money on disadvantaged schools, when they could be pork-barrelling constituents in other ways and in other electorates.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Education Reform Bill is the visionary policy that should [<em>have won\/win<\/em>] the Labor Party the next election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who gives a Gonski for Indigenous Education? Answer: three Australian states and the Australian Senate which yesterday passed the Australian Education Reform bill, aka the Gonski plan. This is a wonderful achievement. Funding based on children&#8217;s needs. At last, schools with lots of disadvantaged Indigenous children can get funding by right and not by favour. &#8230; <a title=\"Who gives a Gonski for Indigenous education?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/06\/who-gives-a-gonski-for-indigenous-education\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who gives a Gonski for Indigenous education?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-indigenous-language-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}