Australia鈥檚 most popular children鈥檚 author, Mem Fox, has criticised the federal government鈥檚 unfair funding of private schools.
Fox was addressing an audience of public school educators at the National Press Club. She said the "confidence trick" of private schools marketing was being revealed, but governments persisted with unfair funding models.
"The federal government spends two-thirds of its school education dollars on the one-third of students in Australia who go to private schools,鈥 she said. 鈥淲here is our national sense of shame at that statistic?