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Private schools, impact assessment and the regulatory regime of federal state aid

Davies, Merryn ( 1989)

This work addresses a particular aspect of Commonwealth Government education funding policy emergent in the post-Kamel era -- the attitude of successive governments in the .1970s and 1980s to the funding of new non-government schools and to the expansion of the non-government schools sector. It traces in particular the emergence of the notion of "impact", which entailed a concession that the establishment of a new non-government school could adversely affect education services offered by neighbouring schools. Incorporation of impact provisions into formal government guidelines for funding of new non-government schools after 1983 represented one of the more important differences between Hawke Government education policies and those of the former Coalition Government. It is my contention that a focus on this relatively limited policy area maps out a site of intersection of government and non-government school sectors that is comparatively rare in recent documentation of education policy development. The impact policy serves to illustrate the potential friction and abrasiveness involved in the relations between the two sectors; at the same time it can be shown to have contributed itself to the construction of a relationship between the sectors which has gone largely under-scrutinised in past studies of dual sector education provision in Australia.(From Introduction)