An opportunity to drive change on school patronage

School patronage, specifically the continuing domination of national school patronage — still around 90% — by the Catholic Church is one of the hotly-contested grounds in our evolving society.

It is, as some of the Catholic hierarchy have recognised, irrational that in a country where the once reliable and near-absolute commitment to Catholicism is, at best, on the wane that this near-monopoly continues.