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Sydney school surprise?

David Robertson  |  World
Date posted:  1 Oct 2023
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Sydney school surprise?

Most people outside Australia would be surprised to learn that around 25% of Australia’s children are educated in private Christian schools.

Some of these are big posh Anglican schools for the elites, but the vast majority are for the middle class and poor. The Anglican diocese in New South Wales oversees 30 schools.

These schools are one of the last bastions in Australian civic society to stand out against the ‘woke’ progressive establishment. Therefore it should not come as a surprise that they are under constant attack from that establishment. The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation regularly carry negative stories about the Sydney Anglican schools in particular. When the Herald recently printed an article entitled ‘Schools force Anglican backdown on statement opposing same-sex marriage’, it looked as though the pressure was beginning to tell.

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