Public funding for private education has become as much an Australian institution as guns in America 
Because so many battlers think a private education is better they are protective of any subsidy they think applies. It would be a brave pollie to actually reduce or eliminate it and divert the funding to the public sector.
What is the only thing guaranteed by private education? Would it be attending with and meeting the ‘right people’ from more wealthy families who could one day help one’s career or social prospects? Sadly the value of that may be immeasurable to be able to enter the old boys and girls clubs. Stalemate?
