Julie Bishop has contracted a marketing/polling firm to survey school principals about 'autonomy'. They are 1 hour face to face interviews. With Howard's taste for grabbing power from the states, watch out for Julie Bishop's Education power grabs. The various Principal Associations (considered by many Principals as unrepresentative Liberal Party fronts) already softening up the public with curriculum concerns.
Speaking of Bishop power grabs, Julie B. has jumped aboard the PM's Mersey Hospital intervention in Tasmania. She's suggesting that public schools apply to become self governing trusts outside the state system and get direct Federal funding. Similar to Thatcher style Opting Out in the UK. Not sure how it would work constitutionally, but wasn't it only recently that she said that the Feds could no longer afford to fund public education, and invited her big business pals including the head of Maccas in Australia, to step in and bail them out?
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