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1. Given its natural affinity for the private sector, it hardly suprises that Coalition policy does not contain an endorsement of the public nature of schooling to the effect that education is a public good and therefore must be available to all without duress in respect of fees.
   This, however, should not exculpate the NCEC from not criticising such an omission, given that Church teaching on the Catholic School specifically endorses the public nature of the Catholic school - a position that is absent in Australia, where, exceptionally in comparison with other equivalent countries, Catholic schools are located within the private sector and charge fees, thereby excluding the very poor.
   This, however, should not exonerate Ms Temby from commenting on such an anomaly, since she discharged part of her career as Librarian at the Catholic Education Commission of WA, where she enthusiastically promoted the work of Michael Hornsby-Smith, who points to several injustices endemic to Catholic school provision in this regard as the result of the temptation to construct injustice as an externality about which students are to be instructed, rather than a focus for interrogating the hidden curriculum of the school.
   Pivotal to this is the question of access and equity through equitable enrolment policy, which she blithely ignores.
   Rather than playing one side of politics off against another - a strategy that is unbecoming of a Catholic Church agency - Ms Temby is better advised to adopt a position more attuned to the Gospel precepts of justice and peace.

   Posted By: Michael Furtado

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