• Inside the fight to keep girls out of boys' schools

  • Feb 12 2025
  • Length: 29 mins
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Inside the fight to keep girls out of boys' schools

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  • This week on The Fin podcast, AFR Magazine contributor Brook Turner on why Sydney has become the epicentre of this battle and whether there is still a place in Australia for single-sex schools.

    This podcast is sponsored by IG.

    Further reading:
    ‘We became a pinata’: The culture war tearing a school apart
    How its decision to go co-ed made Newington College in Sydney the country’s most talked-about school.
    ‘We did not expect the intensity’: Newington hits back at co-ed row
    Coeducation is seen as the future of school. So why is Newington College in Sydney at the centre of a debate so hot that parents are withdrawing boys?
    Why coeducation is so fraught in Australia
    Are single-sex schools – no, make that boys-only schools – deserving of the bad rap they get? Are they hotbeds of toxic masculinity? Are girls better off without boys disrupting their classes and smashing their self-confidence?

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