What a crock, as an Aussie it really pisses me off when crap like this comes up. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corp, well done to McDonald's for trying to exploit a part of the Aussie culture. Just a cheap stunt to make their corporation appear to give a toss about anything other than their bottom line.

That would be Joel Turner and it's Sydney not sidney.

"And the ridiculous thing over here is the government actually invests a fuck-tonne MORE money into the private system than the public system."

Jesus you people that whine about government funding for private schools need to wake the hell up. I'd love to know where exactly you're pulling those figures from. Here are some actual numbers for you which are based on studies of the the Australian education system by the bureau of statistics. Over the last five years the Australian government spends $4.7 billion per year on Government schools whilst giving non-government run schools $1.57 billion per year. Independent schools receive the majority of their funding from fees charged to the parents which saves the taxpayer because they don't have to contribute all of the education fees for the 28% of Australian students in non government schools. Therefore private schools HELP to SUBSIDISE government schools as the government doesn't need to spend as much as they would to run more government schools. So to spell it out for you take away the private schools and instead of the government putting $1.57 billion into private education they'd have to spend almost $5 billion to cover the short fall from those schools not existing. If you don't believe me the figures are here: http://www.abs.gov.au

And you've pulled those numbers about public students being more successful than private out of your arse as well. The syllabus is standard across Australia, but that is all. The different states have different systems for getting that syllabus across to it's students what you learn is standard, the variations which you find in students continuing onto higher education is STATE based, the Australian government cannot be held accountable for education which is a state responsibility. Wake up to yourself and stop trying to make the education system in Australia out to be something it is not.

The following link is only one example, you don't even need to scratch the surface to see that each State varies in it's results between private and public schools. "Private schools outperform Public" http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/08/2134118.htm