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Split funding idea for schools has big risks and few clear benefits

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Less than two days before meeting with the Premiers at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull lobbed an innovative idea on the table.

The Federal government would cease funding for public schools, but...

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