" data-medium-file="https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=450" class="size-medium wp-image-138" alt="NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell signs the Gonski schools funding agreement with Julia Gillard. Image: Fairfax." src="https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=300&h=168" width="300" height="168" srcset="https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=298&h=168 298w, https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=597&h=336 597w, https://thoughtbubblepodcast.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/art-gillard-gonski-620x349.jpg?w=150&h=84 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell signs the Gonski schools funding agreement with Julia Gillard. Image: Fairfax.
Episode 12: Deficits and Gonski. In the week in which the states and Commonwealth negotiated over schools funding, Ben and Amber interview education academic Bronwyn Hinz on the tricky task of negotiating federal-state schools funding agreements. In a time of structural deficit, can the Commonwealth afford it? And who will pay?
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