Since before Federation, for a period of over eighty years up to the late 1960s, public funds were not provided for non-government schooling in Australia.

NSW Parents Council (NSWPC) was founded in Goulburn,1962, by parents who campaigned for public funding of their small non-government school. NSWPC was part of the vanguard of action to achieve this in Australia in the late 1960's and continues to lead action for true justice, choice and fairness for non government school parents and their children.

Today NSWPC is the state-wide organisation of non-government school parents and their local school parent associations. NSWPC is recognised as the voice of non-government school parents in the general community.

NSWPC is a non-party political and multi-denominational organisation. It is self-sufficient and autonomous in its work. It is the state affiliate to Australian Parents Council (APC), the national organisation of parents of non-government school children giving NSW non government school parents an even wider voice in the Federal arena.

NSWPC achieves and effectively contributes to significant outcomes for parents, their children and their school communities. We have been successful in monitoring the educational environment and affecting change when required.