Article: The state aid revolution: interviews with Kim E. Beazley and Malcolm Fraser.(Interview)

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'State Aid' for Catholic schools was a constant demand of Australian Catholics from the late nineteenth century when government funding of private schools ended. They campaigned for what they called 'educational justice': a share of their tax payments to be returned to them for the support their own schools. For over seventy years the campaign bore no results as major political parties took warning from the intense sectarianism evident in the early Commonwealth. They feared that any direct concessions to the Catholics would provoke a backlash from non-Catholic voters and lead to electoral defeat.

Nevertheless, Catholic schools survived and ...

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