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Opening of new Mandurah school Government operation of private schools would be incredibly more expensive than the existing system, the Premier, Mr Brian Burke said at the weekend.
Mr Burke spelt out what he said were the "crass economics" of private school funding. He said it would be "incredibly more expensive" for the government to operate private schools rather than to assist parents who undertook a big portion of the government's responsibility for education. "That's just the economic justification" he told the large crowd who witnessed his official opening of Assumption Catholic Primary school at Mandurah. The Archbishop of Perth, Sir Launcelot Goody, has responded on the Broadcasting
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"Married to that is the inalienable right parents have to choose their children's education, a right to which our government pays tribute. Mr Burke said while the government would not be able to provide all the assistance required and appropriate, the government was looking at ways to lighten the burden and to make sure that Catholic education was able to grow and fulfil its vital role. He outlined three ways:
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I) to provide the Catholic Education Commission with a much more detailed knowledge of the education system in WA so that the CEC could make sensible decisions and be able to influence the advance of education in the State. 2) to assist authorities find sites for schools. Mr Burke said if a more complete planning of private schools could be made at the outset of the development of a new suburb it would avoid the waste in the government system when facilities became redundant as private schools entered the area at a later date.
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Realistic 3) looking for ways to realistically increase the level of funding State governments are able to lend to private systems. "My views won't always coincide with those of the CEC or all of the parents at this school," Mr Burke continued. "We will move to the implementation of a needs-based funding and my justification for that where there is a scarcity of resources and the devotion of such resources is not as needed as in areas such as these, the tinue at an existing level. "We propose not to result is a confiscation alter the base position from parents of the right from which we will move to choose. and we will not deprive any part of the private system any part of the Ability base grant to which they had access until the "The right to choose election. "But in the devotion of without the ability to extra resources the guidfund or finance the right ing line will he the need of is a fairly hollow one." Mr Burke said that the those to which those government accepted the resources are directed." difficulty arising from the he said. fact that people ma • See other stories back e xpect funding to conpage.
Bishop Quinn and the Premier, Mr Burke at the plague commemorating the opening ceremony at Assumption school, Mandurah.
China crackdown
PEKING — Twenty-five years after the split between th Vatican and China's Patriotic Church, Peking appears to have s tepped up its battle against traditional Roman Cath-olicism. In a commemoration yesterday of the split, Xi lhongxun, a member of the Communist Party seereta-
riat, threatened followers of the Vatican Church with legal action.
"They would hurt the national dignity of the great Chinese people," said Mr Xi. "If they violate laws, they will be punished by law." In a crackdown last month in Shanghai, several priests who remained outside
the regime's Patriotic Catholic Church structure were sentenced to long prison terms. A mong the priests were two Jesuits, Father Vincent Zhu and Father Joseph Chen. They were sentenced to 15 and 11 years' gaol respectively, according to the French sources.