The state would continue to fund education but would abandon its hopeless attempts to micro-manage every aspect of school life.

This money could then be used to fund education costs.

The committee also expressed concern that ministers had not taken up its call for a levy on technology companies to fund education in digital literacy.

He condemned the government for its 'continued refusal to back marriage' and urged ministers to promote it with tax breaks and to fund education and support of relationships.

Control of federal school lands needed to fund education within the territory were a secondary benefit of statehood.