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and students who take distance education in
Australia is approximately 30,000. The number of registered homeschoolers alone was 21,437 in 2019; this corresponds to 0.5 per cent of the total school population of Australia. In the 2010s, the average growth rate of the practice amounted to 9.4 per cent per year. The largest Christian school of distance education in Australia is the
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passed legislation, requiring the registration of children up to the age of 16 and increasing the school leaving age to 16 from the previous 15, undertaking home education (registration is optional for those age of 16–17 but highly recommended). The
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or territory. The HEA does not produce educational material but offers substantial discounts to its members to third-party educational curriculum. The HEA advocates in the interest of home educators in all states and territories, with each state regulated by different
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Australia include religious or philosophical conviction and bullying in or dissatisfaction with school, as well as
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teachers were employed in remote areas of
Victoria. Victoria was the first state in Australia to do so, others came after in the following years. Today, distance learning is virtually only carried out via the Internet.
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government has any legitimate authority to oversee the choices parents make to raise and educate their children. Curricular help is offered by the Australian Government. In 2006,
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