Hunger Games hits Sydney’s migrant-stuffed schools

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Another day, another report on Sydney’s schools being crush-loaded by immigration. This time in the cross-hairs is the Chinese stronghold of Chatswood:

Parents are furious that plans to move Chatswood Public School to a bigger site have been dumped even though the school has had to ban handball, hold four separate assemblies and stagger lunchtimes to deal with the “severe” overcrowding.

The Parents & Citizens Association has also been paying $10,000 a year to have the school’s toilets cleaned between recess and lunch because of pressure on the facilities, which they say have not been upgraded despite a 54 per cent increase in enrolments since 2012…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.