MRC Report: Gonski Revisited

Making the Education Dollar Work for Our Kids

Published: April 2017

Authors: Nick Cater & Meredith Jackson

The billions of taxpayers dollars spent on schools since the original 2012 Gonski Review would have been better targeted at improving teaching standards and directly assisting disadvantaged families, according to a new paper by an influential policy think tank. This paper argues the $30 billion school funding boost committed to by the Gillard Labor government was not capable of lifting Australian education results, as recent international standardised testing had demonstrated.