Australian Ministers of Education and Liberal Relations decide on further regressive policies for schooling

Earlier this month, a conference of Australian local, territorial, and federal education ministers decided on a series of measures to promote the "Gonski 2.0" corporate agenda, launched last year.

On December 12, following two days of debate, the so-called Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration was signed off by Labor and Liberal politicians. The so-called document subordinates federal and state education policy to the demand....