“Gonski school funding report back online…” [#geekgirl] [#censorship]
[Via The Sydney Morning Herald] “The Gonski report is back on a government website, after an intervention by Fairfax Media.
All traces of the 286-page school funding report and its associated submissions vanished from departmental websites shortly after the Abbott government took office.
A search for the phrase ‘Gonski Report’ on the education department’s website returned the query: “Did you mean ‘lenskyi support’?”
The new education minister Christopher Pyne said he wanted to go “back to the drawing board” on school funding and charged his department with developing “a new model that is national, that is fair to everyone and that is needs-based”.
The Gonski Review, the most comprehensive in 30 years, vanished from the official record.
Other publicly-funded reviews including the Henry Tax Review and the Garnaut Climate Change Review remained on their dedicated websites.
Asked through the freedom of information process why it had deleted the Gonski website the department referred to “the outcome of the federal election and the relevant machinery of government changes”.
In January Fairfax Media used a little-known provision of the Freedom of Information Act in attempt to return the report to the department’s site.”