Title
Rescue public schools not corporate profiteers
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Kevin Rudd's vigorous attack upon “extreme capitalism” revealed he does not understand the nature of the current crisis. This is not a meltdown caused purely and simply by rogue traders, bizarre mortgage lending, gross corporate salaries and payouts and, in general, the politics of greed. All those are symptoms of a much more systemic disease. That disease is the ideology of privatisation and deregulation, an ideology Rudd has shown no inclination to buck. This Government's persistent embrace of neoliberal ideology and practice is highlighted by its school funding policy and also its market-driven approach to schooling policy in general.
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Publication Details
This article was originally published as Ashbolt, A, Rescue public schools not corporate profiteers, Australian Options Magazine: Discussions for social justice and political change, 55, Summer 2008/09, 21-2. Journal website here.