[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 [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
