Means-test welfare, but not education. That's privatisation by stealth | Greg Jericho

Our progressive tax and welfare system does half the job of reducing inequality. Social transfers in kind - like public education - do the rest

This week a draft chapter on education for the Abbott government's green paper on federation reform was leaked to Fairfax papers. Among its more newsworthy aspects was a proposal to means test public education, wherein wealthy families would be required to pay fees to attend public schools.

The call to means test public education is one of those lines that appears progressive, but is actually a Trojan horse. It would result in Australia becoming much less equal.