http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/angelo-gavrielatos/ Angelo Gavrielatos is the Federal President of the Australian Education Union (AEU) and has held this position since 2008. He is also a member of the board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership and the chair of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA. Prior to being elected as president of the AEU, Angelo was a presidential officer of the NSW Teachers Federation for six years and an organiser in Western Sydney between 1992 and 2002. He was previously a secondary teacher in Green Valley in Sydney’s south west. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sorry-but-public-schools-are-neglected/ In the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, a Labor backbencher from Melbourne’s outer west weighed into the national debate on schools funding. In a media release headed Howard’s Unfair School Funding Model Must Go, the MP attacked the Coalition Government for the funding arrangements it had introduced earlier that year. As evidence of the inequity the release pointed out that the model treated elite private schools as more needy than public schools and gave them almost twice the funding per student. That was both “ridiculous and unfair”, the MP said. Fast forward ten years and that backbencher is now our Prime Minister. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Angelo Gavrielatos) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sorry-but-public-schools-are-neglected/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/sorry-but-public-schools-are-neglected/#item6559 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:30:49 +0000 Angelo Gavrielatos | Author bios | The Punch