Earlier this week, the Federal Government reached a landmark funding arrangement with all states and territories, when Queensland became the last state in Australia to sign on to the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement.

It's been an epic process to get to this point, so does that mean the disadvantage we're seeing in Australian public schools will start to shift? The issues our schools are facing are complex and in lots of cases - pretty well entrenched. So once the money comes through, what else needs to change to make our schooling system fairer?

Guest: Tom Greenwell is a teacher in the ACT secondary public system and co-author of "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools"