Share of federal funding to public schools went from 73.7% in 1964-65, to 33.3% in 2005-06. During the same period, the share of federal funding to private schools went from 26.3% to 66.7%.
Direct federal funding to private schools was $2.7 million
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In this article, which first appeared in the November 9 Sydney Morning Herald, former diplomat Tony Kevin called on Australians to oppose what is happening in Fallujah.
We need to be clear on what is happening in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, about
Boom years
"More than 60% of all US companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the [US Congress's] General Accounting Office reports." — MSN Money website.
Like the glove puppet invites in the hand
"And so
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Sam Watson, prominent Aboriginal activist and Socialist Alliance member, slammed as "racist clowns" the members of the Australian army who were revealed in the November 11 Courier Mail, standing behind Aboriginal soldiers in a
Max Lane, Sydney
Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP) is deeply concerned at the news that 38-year-old Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir, who died in September aboard a flight to Amsterdam, was murdered, according to an
Michael Shaik
Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla-turned-statesman, granted the Nobel Peace Prize before being condemned by the Israeli and US governments as a terrorist and obstacle to peace, died of a blood disease in a Paris hospital on November 11,
Sarah Stephen, Sydney
The immigration department must have changed its mind at the last moment, because Sereana Naikelekele wasn't on the flight from Sydney that arrived in Fiji at 6.10pm on November 6, where Fijian police and airport officials
Total Recall: The Election Of Arnie — Tells the story of how Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up Californian governor. SBS, Thursday, November 18, 2pm.
A Million Acres A Year — The southwest of Western Australia is one of the world's most
Eva Cheng
The illegal Korean Government Employees Union (KGEU) plans to press ahead with a general strike on November 15 despite having the strike ballot among its 140,000 members seriously disrupted by police.
The KGEU had planned a general
Doug Lorimer
On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated second attempt to recapture the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, located 55 kilometres west of Baghdad.
The assault — conducted by some 10,000 US troops and 500 Iraqi troops
Stuart Munckton
The Venezuelan regional elections held on October
31 registered another decisive victory for the Bolivarian
revolution, just two-and-a half months after the radical
pro-poor President Hugo Chavez won almost 60% of the vote in
John Percy, Sydney
A major diplomatic incident could be triggered by a diehard right-wing Vietnamese group in Sydney, with the naive complicity of the Fairfield City Council.
A local Vietnamese paper claims that the council has officially
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