Education Minister, Tehan threatens to withhold billions in school funding unless deal is struck with states by early December. This is a new low even for Scott Morrison – holding schoolkids to ransom. Parents + teachers are right to be furious. State govts hate his massive public school rip off, so he’s resorting to desperate bully boy tactics. He could solve this fight by fairly funding public schools. Meanwhile elders, educators and parents in Borroloola reportedly forced federal indigenous affairs envoy TonyAbbott out of the community on Wednesday, during the former Prime Minister’s first visit. He picked the wrong community to try and bully.
Victorian Education Minister James Merlino blasted what he described as a "clumsy and unprecedented threat" by the Federal Government which has demanded a fresh national agreement on schools funding be signed without delay.
Mr Merlino took the extraordinary step of publicly releasing a letter from Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan, which warns the Commonwealth would be unable to fund public and private schools in early 2019 unless a deal is signed by December 7.
"Should a bilateral agreement not be in place by this date, the Commonwealth will be unable to make the first 2019 payment to the relevant state or territory, including with respect to government schools," the letter said.
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