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New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says the role Catholic schools have played in the state’s history is “overwhelmingly positive.”

Speaking at the Catholic Schools NSW Education Law Symposium 2025, he went over the storied history of faith-based learning and schools in the state, dating back centuries.

“From the very start of schooling in New South Wales over 200 years ago when the first church built its first schoolhouse in Parramatta, Catholics have been running schools and teaching children and playing a central role in formal education in New South Wales,” he said.

“It means we have this system in Australia growing up over centuries where more than one in five children in our state now attend a Catholic school.”

Minns said Catholic education ranged from preschool to university, with the church having the requisite skills and community to run these establishments effectively.

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