Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke said that «
none of Australia's environmental
problems is more serious than the soil degradation... over
nearly two - thirds
of our continent's arable land» (Brown 1990, p. 60).
When we checked with survey respondents who they would turn to beyond this («if you had a
problem with a school and felt that the headteacher had not resolved it, who would you complain to») despite
nearly a third
of our survey respondents having a child at an academy school,
none identified the Education Funding Agency as a body they would contact — even though the EFA is the organisation responsible for handling complaints about academies.