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Evening Star, Issue 2972, 28 August 1872, Page 4

The Education Question in Victoria. —An Education League has been formed iu Melbourne, the aim of which is : “To secure secular, compulsory, and free education of the youth of the Colony. To urge the passing of a Bill to amend the pi eseut Common Schools Act, embodying the following principles as the basis of a public school system : —The whole scheme of public education to be under a Minister of Instruction, who shall have a seat in the Cabinet, and be responsible to Parliament; providing a thorough secular education for all the youth of the Colony; making it compulsory that every child between the ages of six and twelve years shall receive an elementary secular education ; provision in the public schools for instruction in higher branches than those rendered compulsory ; the abolition of all fees in the public schools ; placing public school teachers on the civil service list. To secure the return of representatives to Parliament pledged to support the views of the League. To foster in the public unid, by means of lectures, public meetings, &c., a sustained interest in the objects ot the League.”

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