[LINK] More history revision - Gonski

[Jan Whitaker]

[I hope Pandora and the Archives have both captured the Gonski 
education reforms work. This is criminal. Doesn't the information 
belong to the Commonwealth, e.g. the people of Australia? How can 
these id^h^h people continue to try to destroy the past like this? It 
is disrespectful of the people who created it and those who spent 
years contributing to it.]

[I've left in the URLs this time intentionally.]


Gonski's gone: school funding review struck from record

Peter Martin
Published: December 2, 2013 - 4:57PM

Gonski has been expunged from the official record.

Search for the name of the report on the Commonwealth Education 
Department website and you'll get a reply asking whether you meant 
"<http://education.gov.au/search/site/gonski>lenskyi".

Search for it by its official title - 
<http://www.theage.com.au/action/education.gov.au/search/site/%22review%20of%20funding%20for%20schooling%22>Review 
of Funding for Schooling - and you'll be told your search "returned 
no results".

The review was the most comprehensive in 30 years. It took 20 months 
to complete. It spans 300 pages. It attracted an extraordinary 7000 
individual written submissions. Five of the six panel members held 
the Order of Australia. The government even gave the inquiry and the 
report their own website: www.schoolfunding.gov.au

But they are not there any more. Visits to 
<http://www.schoolfunding.gov.au>www.schoolfunding.gov.au are 
redirected to the departmental website of minister Christopher Pyne, 
where there's no mention of the word "Gonski" at all, let alone a 
copy of the report or its 7000 submissions.

A departmental spokesman has confirmed that the report is missing. He 
told Fairfax Media all material on the website was removed when the 
machinery of government changes came into effect. The department was 
"in the process of updating its website after the machinery of 
government changes".

The machinery of government changes took place three months ago. They 
split the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 
into two: Education and Employment.

It is not clear why the change should have removed the Gonski 
schoolfunding.gov.au website, if indeed that is what happened.

The spokesman was unable to confirm whether the cleansing of the 
website was accidental or deliberate.

In the meantime, he offered to email Fairfax Media a copy.

Fairfax Media has its own copy, 
<http://www.afr.com/rw/2009-2014/AFR/2012/02/20/Photos/c396c252-5b66-11e1-b121-7532de62367a_schooling%20funding.pdf>available 
here.

Other departments have had no difficulty keeping reports commissioned 
by the former government on their websites. The modelling of the 
carbon tax remains on the Treasury website. The minerals resource 
rent tax documents remain on the resources department website.

This story was found at: 
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gonskis-gone-school-funding-review-struck-from-record-20131202-2yljm.html 





Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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