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Save public schools, not corporate fat cats

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posted on 2024-11-13, 19:50 authored by Anthony Ashbolt
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 Mr Rudd has shown no inclination to challenge. This Government's persistent embrace of neo-liberal 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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Ashbolt, Anthony, Save public schools, not corporate fat cats, The Adelaide Advertiser, 6 November 2008, 18

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Adelaide Now, November 6,

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English

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26303

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