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Acknowledgement
This is an invited response to the special issue of Discourse based on AARE Invited Symposia ‘Responsibility and responsibilisation in education’ 2015. I would like to thank Christine Halse for constructive criticisms of this piece.
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Notes
1 See the recent public uproar at Serco’s running of Mt Eden prison in Auckland with $1.5 million in anticipated penalty fines for various offences – http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/284397/minster-says-serco's-55-breaches-'fair'. For Serco see https://www.serco.com/ where it advertises its welfare business in education, healthcare, environmental services, justice and immigration, prisons, and the like.