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Susan Ryan served in the Hawke Cabinet as Minister for Education and was Age Discrimination Commissioner 2011-2016.
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Susan Ryan was Minister for Education in the Hawke Cabinet and Age Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission 2011-2016.
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One response to “SUSAN RYAN supports Pearls and Irritations.”
It is not generally known that Susan Ryan played a critical role in the disbursement of Federal funding to Catholic schools, in which regard she once actively considered a topic now consistently considered by critical education policy researchers which is to integrate Catholic systemic schools, as in various other jurisdictions, especially New Zealand and also in some of the Canadian provinces, to include freely-available, comprehensive Catholic schools within the provision of Australia’s public education provisional framework.
Pearls & Irritations being one of the few journals that at least obliquely features this topic as part of it overall focus on school-funding policy discourse, it is surely to be recommended that Ms Ryan consolidates the endorsement she makes here by publishing an opinion on this topic. After all, whatever else John Menadue is well-known for in terms of the issues he and his editorial team privilege, it is thankfully NOT to leave unfinished business alone, whether it is to do with the Catholic Church, the Whitlam Government’s dismissal, Australia’s status as monarchy or even the Terra Nullius myth, by way of many other pressing cases for reform.