Remote families take to Canberra over cost of education

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published October 19, 2023

The small Birdsville State School has been teaching kids on the edge of the Simpson Desert in outback Queensland for more than a century.

The Isolated Children's Parents' Association lobbied ministers and regional politicians in Canberra. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

But once local children finish year six, their closest high school is about 1000km away.

Distance is a dilemma faced by thousands ...

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