Where on one hand, Julia Gillard, Minister for Education at Sydney Institute assures that the schools would not get worse off due to impending review of school funding; it's on the other hand, the draft terms of reference and the membership of the review committee claimed the other way round about the same school funding.

A clear expression has come up that the minister wants to bury the funding issue until after the 2010 election, after it was known that the report's recommendations are not due until 2011. This discussion paper was mentioned today before the Henry Tax review was handed down.

Unquestionable reasons have been put up to delay the decisions about the new funding model, by the Prime Minister Rudd and Minister Gillard. To comprehend how politically volatile the issue is of funding to non-government schools, one must recall the electoral impact of Mark Latham's hit list of so-called wealthy non-government schools, proclaimed in the lead up to the 2004 election.

Minister Gillard, as it seems, is kind of a champion of school choice and the right of non-government schools to be properly funded. But in context to the review, the Education Minister argued, "this is not about taking money away from schools" and that "no school will lose a dollar of funding in the sense that their school budget per student will not reduce in dollar terms".