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Associate Professor Kay Margetts interviewed on ABC Radio about the game peek-a-boo and hide and seek which she says teaches children that something exists even if they cannot see it. Associate Professor Margetts says through this game children learn to cope with fear, fright, or surprise and can build a trusting relationship with those who suffered trauma or a difficult relationship. Aired on 25 July and 1 August 2019.

Professor Barry McGaw interviewed on ABC News about Australia’s richest schools spending more on new facilities and renovations than the poorest 18,000 schools combined. Professor McGaw said it is unfair how great the differences are wherein the public schools are coping with the growing numbers of students. He says the OECD data show increase expenditure does not make much difference to the quality education in the range in which rich countries spend. McGaw says the States are strapped compared to the Commonwealth and it is one of the reasons the Government schools do not do well because they depend on the poor sector. He says in the Netherlands, about two-thirds of students go to non-government schools and while he was in the OECD and doing the analysis of the country expenditures, they had to make a distinction between government-funded and privately-funded and government-governed or privately-governed and in the Netherlands, all schools are publicly-funded. Aired on 13 August 2019.