Given that only 15% of university graduates are from non selective public schools or less than a third of those from independent schools, whilst still educating the same number of kids, this would imply that the chance of a child with the same ability getting into university is higher at an independent school.

Considering that it costs the state less per independently educated child, it is money well spent.

I don't believe that private schools
should be supported equally with state
schools unless private schools lower
their fees. They can't have it both
ways. They can't insist on government
funding while continuing
to increase their student fees.
While state schools have to rely only
on government funding to barely survive.

"Interestingly, private school children don't seem to do better at Uni, so something must be wrong with the elite indoctrination system -- better throw some more money at it."

what's the evidence for this?

What time period is this over?

Urban myth .. (a consensus of whiners does not make it fact)

Sounds like the usual school of envy at work, or just completely made up bullshyte, the type you hear when a bunch of whiners get together to bleat about someone being better off.

Here's a statement you probably hear all the time fellas "you should have studied harder shouldn't you!"

Give every parent a certificate of value for each child they have and let them invest it at the school of their choice. Let's see where it ends up.

Many people seem to forget that even if a parent chooses a private school, they are still taxpayers, Australians and ENTITLED to a fair share, as fair as a parent whose kid is in a public school.

These articles about the haves and have-nots bring out all the poisonous envy we see all the time from the likes of the unions and ALP .. class warfare.

Your kid is not missing out if he goes to a public school, and a kid who goes to a private school is most likely there because their parents are missing out, so their kid can attend.

Mind you, most of the usual whiners are here as usual, the sniff of anyone doing well or differently is too much to bear.

It is the governments duty to fund education, it is not their duty to divide it up to please the bitterness of some of the community.

"It is divisive and elitist." what is divisive is the rants of class warriors of the socialist bent trying to make out that anything but a socialist flattening out of everything is evil .. it's not, socialism is evil though.

What's wrong with elitism?

Is it a crime?

Whining constantly should be treated, not as a crime, but certainly as a symptom of depression.

'Many people seem to forget that even if a parent chooses a private school, they are still taxpayers, Australians and ENTITLED to a fair share, as fair as a parent whose kid is in a public school.'

Rubbish. They forgo their entitlement voluntarily when they CHOOSE not to go to a governmnet funded school. There is nothing stopping them from doing this.

Besides, just because you pay tax doesn't mean you're entitled to get it all back.

If you want the best from your tax dollars, send your kids to a public school. You might even save $20k every year that could go toward a nice deposit on a house for your kids when they start university. Maybe you could use all the extra money for a private tutor.

The choices are endless!

Secularist are slow learners and still in denial. With all the extra funding that State schools get their amoral philosophies have proved a failure. People have and are voting with their feet. It would be interesting to see how many State school teachers send their kids to private schools. I have known a number and yet very few if any private school teachers send their kids to state schools. I wonder why!