This week on The Fin podcast, AFR Magazine contributor Brook Turner on why Sydney has become the epicentre of this battle and whether there is still a place in Australia for single-sex schools.

This podcast is sponsored by IG.

Further reading:
‘We became a pinata’: The culture war tearing a school apart
How its decision to go co-ed made Newington College in Sydney the country’s most talked-about school.
‘We did not expect the intensity’: Newington hits back at co-ed row
Coeducation is seen as the future of school. So why is Newington College in Sydney at the centre of a debate so hot that parents are withdrawing boys?
Why coeducation is so fraught in Australia
Are single-sex schools – no, make that boys-only schools – deserving of the bad rap they get? Are they hotbeds of toxic masculinity? Are girls better off without boys disrupting their classes and smashing their self-confidence?

This week on The Fin podcast, AFR Magazine contributor Brook Turner on why Sydney has become the epicentre of this battle and whether there is still a place in Australia for single-sex schools.
This podcast is sponsored by <a href="https://www.ig.com/au/homepage">IG.</a>
Further reading: <a href="https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/we-became-a-pinata-the-culture-war-tearing-a-school-apart-20240916-p5kaz9" data-stringify-link="https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/we-became-a-pinata-the-culture-war-tearing-a-school-apart-20240916-p5kaz9" data-sk="tooltip_parent">&lsquo;We became a pinata&rsquo;: The culture war tearing a school apart</a> How its decision to go co-ed made Newington College in Sydney the country&rsquo;s most talked-about school. <a href="https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/we-did-not-expect-the-intensity-newington-hits-back-at-co-ed-row-20250129-p5l7xs" data-stringify-link="https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/we-did-not-expect-the-intensity-newington-hits-back-at-co-ed-row-20250129-p5l7xs" data-sk="tooltip_parent">&lsquo;We did not expect the intensity&rsquo;: Newington hits back at co-ed row</a> Coeducation is seen as the future of school. So why is Newington College in Sydney at the centre of a debate so hot that parents are withdrawing boys? <a href="https://authoring.platform.ink/wp/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=29201990" data-stringify-link="https://authoring.platform.ink/wp/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=29201990" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Why coeducation is so fraught in Australia</a> Are single-sex schools &ndash; no, make that boys-only schools &ndash; deserving of the bad rap they get? Are they hotbeds of toxic masculinity? Are girls better off without boys disrupting their classes and smashing their self-confidence?

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