I’m told, on good authority, that bed-time stories in the house of some school principals include a retelling, in hushed and reverent tones, of what happened with the Goulburn School Strike in the 1960s. This was the event, more than any other, that led to the current Federal funding arrangement, and which has led to the establishment and growth of Australian non-government schools, of which over 90 per cent are Christian-affiliated.