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The Report of the Senate Select Committee on The Education of Gifted & Talented Children: A Ten Year Report Card

It is over ten years since the Senate Select Committee on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children delivered its report: The Education of Gifted and Talented Children (Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988). The report contains nine recommendations which, the Committee believed “9.15 … [being] all within the Commonwealth’s area of involvement, will assist our gifted children” (p. 177). This brief article summarises what progress, if any, has been made in implementing these recommendations, now over a decade old.

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