As always Catholic education does not advocate or direct votes for any party. We do seek to ensure everyone who is interested is well informed on policies relevant to education.

School funding has not been a focus of the election campaign to date and is not expected to feature further in the days remaining in the campaign. In contrast, the policy positions of the major parties with respect to Early Childhood education are substantially different.

Much information is available through each party’s website and through news outlets. Alongside this, specific to Catholic education the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) has prepared a guide to the federal election on their website with a number of resources. The guide can be accessed at:

https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/news-events/2019-federal-election

The links below are available through the NCEC federal election page and provide further information including Facts on School Funding and FAQs documents for the 2019 Federal Election.

2019 federal election overview provided by NCEC

https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/news-events/2019-federal-election

Facts on school funding

https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/images/2019_NCEC_Facts_on_School_Funding.pdf

Frequently asked questions

https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/images/2019_NCEC_FAQs.pdf

Party responses to questions from NCEC regarding Catholic education

https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/images/2019_NCEC_Election_Party_Responses.pdf